[K12OSN] /tmp

[Nils Breunese]

Michael Blinn wrote:

> What is the convention for cleaning out /tmp in v6?  It's slowly  
> filling up, and I can see some very old files in there. Is there a / 
> tmp manager, or a current method for 'rm -rf /tmp/*' on reboot,  
> or ....?

Do you have the tmpwatch package installed (I think it is installed  
by default, but we don't run K12LTSP 6)?

 From rpm -qi tmpwatch:
----
The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified
directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a
specified period of time.  Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up
directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example,
/tmp).  Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won't switch filesystems and only
removes empty directories and regular files.
----

It is run from /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch on our systems.

Nils Breunese.


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