/tmp directory disappearing

[Larry Hoover]

On 1/28/2015 4:01 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> filePro List propounded (on Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:42:17AM -0500):
> | Hi all,
> | I have three customers using SCO Openserver 7 and filePro which are finding
> | the /tmp directory completely deleted at random times.  One uses MOS, the
> | other two have different filePro apps.  This just started in 2015 and
> | happens randomly.  I checked the crontabs and /etc/rc2.d for scripts that
> | may be causing this.  I am totally perplexed.  Anyone else having this
> | problem?
> | Thanks in advance,
> | Larry Hoover
>
> I've no experience with Openserver 7.  Do you recommend it, Larry?
>
> I've never seen /tmp disappear on Openserver 6, but not quite once a
> year, I have seen /var/tmp (or its symlink /usr/tmp) disappear.  Never
> figured out why,
>
> While it sure would be nice to know what's causing this, for the nonce
> be a hacker: add a crontab entry to 'mkdir /tmp;chmod 4777 /tmp' every
> {small_number_of} minutes.
>
JP,  OS 5.0.7 is stable and works for me.  Love it.
I did resort to putting that exact crontab entry in these discrepant 
systems.  Thanks for the input.