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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
- In-Reply-To: hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com's message of Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:43:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Jul23233441@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1843@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> <1992Jul23.184344.15206@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:37:00 GMT
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- HEM> == hillel.e.markowitz <hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com>
-
- HEM> I would say that putting the following crontab (or similar) should
- HEM> be enough. After all, cleaning up once a week should be sufficient.
-
- HEM> 5 4 * * 6 rm -f /tmp/*
-
- HEM> Of course this assumes that nobody leaves anything important on /tmp.
-
- Like their /tmp/.X11-unix/* sockets for example? (I think screen and
- the Emacs emacsclient and gnuclient packages also put sockets there...)
-
- More than one person has found something breaking after a similar
- crontab was installed. (They probably installed it because of OW :-)
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