On Redhat they use some stupid utility called "tmpwatch" that runs from
cron daily.. it removes files older than a certain date.
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
also man tmpwatch
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Julius C. Duque wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>
> > I have been mysteriously losing files, but only from /tmp, and it is pissing me
> > off. Does /tmp periodically clear out its files? If so, how do I turn this off,
> > and *why was there no information stating this happens*?
>
> /tmp stands for "temporary" which means that everything in this
> directory will be deleted soon on a regular basis. This is also
> the first directory to look at if you're having disk shortage.
> Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how to switch off this
> periodic purging :-(. I think there is a file on /etc that you
> can edit to configure this behavior.
>
> Julius
>
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