tmpwatch apparently not doing anything

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sat Feb 11 20:18:10 UTC 2006


At 8:24 PM +1030 2/11/06, Tim wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:23 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> I've seen a few people mention that /tmp/ files don't seem to be
>> removed, periodically, as they're supposed to, and I notice the same
>> thing.
>>
>> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch file script doesn't begin with a "#!/bin/sh"
>>line, or any
>> other type of #! line.  I wonder if this is the cause?
>>
>> I've added one to see if it helps
>
>It didn't make any difference, the tmpwatch script still doesn't remove
>any /tmp/ files.

Are their atimes old enough to delete them?
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