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- From: graaff@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Hans de Graaff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
- Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
- Message-ID: <2096@dutiws.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 08:30:55 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.120029.6372@eng.ufl.edu>
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
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- In article <1992Sep10.120029.6372@eng.ufl.edu> dlopata@stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata) writes:
- >Every couple of days, I find myself clearing out the /tmp directories on the ELCs,
- >because the file system files up. Most of the files in /tmp are zero byte files, but there are
- >several, named hvtmpAAAa0???? that take up serious disk space.
- >
- > Is it just me, or should /tmp be clearing when the user logs off? Did I miss a flag
- >somewhere?
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- As far as I know SunOs only clears files in tmp on a reboot, not on a
- logout. The hvtmp* files are generated by HelpViewer, the PostScript
- help thing that gets started up automatically from the standard
- openwin-init script. If a user leaves OpenWin without explicitly
- quitting the helpviewer it will not remove its tmp-file, which is only
- about 800K... One solution is to remove the helpviewer from the
- default startup-script.
-
- Hans
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