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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!gdmr
  2. From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
  4. Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
  5. Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
  6. Message-ID: <44021@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 15 Sep 92 08:44:08 GMT
  8. References: <1992Sep10.120029.6372@eng.ufl.edu> <2096@dutiws.tudelft.nl> <unruh.716516734@physics.ubc.ca>
  9. Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk
  10. Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University
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  13. In article <unruh.716516734@physics.ubc.ca>, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
  14. > Another is to run a cron every night to clear out old tmp files ( say
  15. > older than 3 days) eg
  16. > 30 4 * * * find /tmp/ \( -atime +3 -a ! -type d \) -exec rm -f {} \;
  17.  
  18. Be careful that you don't clear out your X server's UNIX-domain socket...
  19. -- 
  20. George D M Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
  21.      Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
  22. Tel: 031-650 5147   Internet: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk   JANET: gdmr@uk.ac.ed.dcs
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