Cleanup of /tmp
Augustine Cano
afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
Sat Feb 2 02:22:52 AEST 1991
> bilbo at bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon) writes:
>> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>> > michael at stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) writes:
>> >
>> >I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge.
>> >
>> It's /etc/.cleanup. The offending line is rm -rf /tmp/*. I have commented
>> it and my files no longer disappear.
>
>When does this get called? I like to have /tmp cleaned up when I reboot,
>but not at some arbitrary interval.
It is definitely called on reboot. This is the only place where I noticed it.
Back in the seagate drive days, I used to have (at least) a crash every few
days and regularly lost all files in /tmp. If anybody knows of another
script or program that cleans up /tmp, please let us all know.
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