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- From: hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (hillel.e.markowitz)
- Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.184344.15206@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T Federal Systems
- References: <1843@ltb.ltb.bso.nl>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:43:44 GMT
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- In article <1843@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
- >People here use OW 3.0. They turn on scrollbar on shelltool, the use file
- >manager. Result: /tmp gets filled with megabytes of trash like:
- >
- >-rw------- 1 maxwell 8064 Jul 23 08:56 Text11572.0
- >
- >etc. But then accumulated from weeks. Since these diskless workstations share
- >a disk partition on the sever for their root partitions, we end up with
- >surprisingly little room on / for everybody.
- >
- >Why doesn't OW remove the suff when it is done with it? Note that stopping and
- >restarting OW doesn't help. It is just old stuff that isnot removed and will
- >not be removed unless you do it by hand.
- >
- >--
- >wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my employer.
- >(+31) 2154 84415/(+31) 35 833539 || Support the League for Programming Freedom!
- > "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
- > Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
-
-
- I would say that putting the following crontab (or similar) should
- be enough. After all, cleaning up once a week should be sufficient.
-
- 5 4 * * 6 rm -f /tmp/*
-
- Of course this assumes that nobody leaves anything important on
- /tmp.
-
- Hillel Markowitz H_Markowitz@att.com
-