<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=062510916-18022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am no cron expert but I don't think so. I think in your tmpremove file you would only list the command needed to remove the /tmp files. I am not the most familiar with the commands but you will probably want enough to del /tmp/*.* like you have, but also add something to suppress the delete confirmation and something to make it run in the background. The you would add the 0,23.*,*, 1-5 /somepath/tmpremove to your crontab.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=062510916-18022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=062510916-18022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>David, if you get a chance could you throw out how you setup your cron job?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><FONT size=2>Jim Kronebusch<BR>Cotter Tech Department<BR>507-453-5188<BR>jim@winonacotter.org </FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> k12osn-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brandon Kovach<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 18, 2005 9:48 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Support list for opensource software in schools.<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [K12OSN] Presentation Freezing<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>This will be my first effort at cron, so please confirm that this is how the cron file should be setup.<BR><BR>0, 23, *, *, 1-5, del /tmp/*.*<BR><BR>Then I would name the file tmpremove.cron<BR><BR>Then I would do a crontab -l to make sure I had no files of the same name.<BR><BR>Then I would crontab tmpremove.cron to activate the file.<BR><BR>Is this all correct?<BR><BR>Jim Kronebusch wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid002701c515ca$baf40ae0$b39b060a@winonacotter.org type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">We have installed k12ltsp version 4.1 I haven't updated the particular server in question. I am having quite a few problem with the clients locking up and then the students not being able to reenter open office or Presentation afterwords. Does anyone know how to remedy this situation? </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""> I think I recall David Trask having similar problems and fixed this with a cron job to remove all files from within /tmp periodically. </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>-- <BR>This message has been scanned for viruses and <BR>dangerous content by the Cotter Tech Department and is <BR>believed to be clean. </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY><br />-- <br />This message has been scanned for viruses and <br />dangerous content by the Cotter Tech Department and is <br />believed to be clean. </HTML>