Your favourite rm in /tmp (was: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (...))

[Peter da Silva]

In article <13633 at ulysses.att.com> andys at ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
> which gets rid of trash which has not been accessed for 3 days, was
> removing the UNIX(R) domain socket from /tmp/x11-unix.  :-(.

What was it doing there? A socket can be anywhere... how about /dev?

> (Hint, only trash real files, and then remove empty directories.)

How about "don't put permanent files in /tmp"?
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