Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:15 pm, you 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 Hi Angus. Whenever I install a version of Mandrake, during the installation, I always pick the option that cleans /tmp at each bootup. In one of the earlier versions of Mandrake, KDE had some problems with a loaded tmp directory. I don't know if its been fixed now or not, but I've checked that option ever since. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Nov 2002 00:07:08 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories 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 -- Fri Nov 8 00:00:01 EST 2002 * Thanks Stephen. There doesn't seem to be a lot of maintenance to do in Linux, so it leaves more time for learning ;-) All the best to you. --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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:32:07 + 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 Derekso 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories
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 Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
