On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:30 am, "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked around for this, and, in my search, > found the following command, the context of which said that it could be > run from cron. I'm just wondering if it's safe to 'clear out' /var/tmp > files (and hoping this will allow me to finish compiling openoffice). > > find /tmp /var/tmp -not -type d -mtime +3 -print0 | > xargs --null --no-run-if-empty rm -f > > All input is welcome.
Unless you use /var/tmp or /tmp for some sort of long time storage, this should be fine. It simply deletes all files in those directories that haven't been modified in 3 days or more. Personally, I just do: rm -rfv * .[^.]* in /var/tmp if I run out of compiling room. Never caused a problem for me, yet. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
