[NBLUG/talk] Need some help with XWindows

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Fri Mar 12 10:23:01 PST 2004


I use tempwatch on a couple directories. It's real easy to configure and
deletes stuff that's no longer needed :-)

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:42:26AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
>> Troy -
>>
>> That did it!
>
> Cool, glad that worked.
>
>> Can't all files in /tmp be deleted without a negative impact?
>
> Almost all, though you'd want to use some caution about *when* you
> remove anything.  The distribution scripts work by deleting only that
> stuff that hasn't been accessed in X number of days. You wouldn't want
> to wipe out the orbit-user or gconf-user dirs while user is using X.
> lost+found should be left alone, as should some stuff dealing with
> quotas (looking at Debian's bootclean script here)
>
>> I thought I read somewhere that some implmentations of Unix delete all
>>  files in /tmp via a crontab.  Could that be true?
>
> I'd say most of them probably do.  Sometimes it's an extra package you
> need to install, (Redhat's was or is called tmpwatch IIRC) and sometimes
> you need to activate it by setting a value in /etc/default/ ( or
> somewhere else)
>
> -troy
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