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From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:32:07 +0000
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories> On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:15, Angus Auld wrote: > > > I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they > > > contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while? > > > Any other stuff that needs deleting? > > > > > > I like to keep things clean ;-) > > > > > > TIA's for any thoughts. > > > > > > --Angus > > > > Be careful of what you delete in the /tmp directory - it's NOT like the > > Widoze C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory where you can literally wipe out > > everything - there is socket information for X11 contained in there - > > generally, linux cleans itself up moreso than does Winders...you might > > want to make sure your browser cache is cleaned out, though - and any > > stray source code left over from compiling proggies is cleaned up - but > > other than that, you shouldn't have to worry... > > > > Stephen > > > If you look in /etc/cron.daily/ you will see that one of the daily chores > performed by cron is to run tmpwatch. > > tmpwatch will delete any file in /tmp which has not been accessed for 240 > hours > > So you do not need to do anything :) > > derek >****************************************************************************** Thanks for that Derek........so that's how things get cleaned up. The /tmp directory in ~/ is exempt from this auto-magic cleaning. I guess I dump stuff there, so I have to keep it clean ;-) All the best. --Angus "This is the Earth School......always in session. Now is the right time to learn, and teach."--A.A. *************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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