cleaning /tmp directory
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 20:28:45 UTC 2010
>>> i need a cron script that cleans every day crap into /tmp
>>> I have there a lot of temp files but i dunno which ones can be safely wiped,
>>> and it is very time comsuming job, too.
>> There already is a cron that will delete file out of /tmp that are 10 days old.
> In addition, at shutdown time everything in /tmp is fair game for
> deletion. As one of the last things done on all my machines I clean out
> /tmp. In my case the reason isn't space, but clutter. With the default
> /tmp cleaning, things build up to such a level that downloaded files
> that I only want to look at once are hard to find (such as pdf files
> etc).
> Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755.
> #!/bin/sh
> ###############################################################################
> ## ##
> ## File: halt.local ##
> ## Author: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang at wsrcc.com> ##
> ## Created: Thu Jun 7 23:47:14 PDT 2007 ##
> ## Contents: wsrcc site-specific halt stuff ##
> ## ##
> ## Copyright (c) 2007 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht. ##
> ## All rights reserved. ##
> ## ##
> ## $Id$ ##
> ###############################################################################
> # wsrcc halt script
> echo "WSRCC: Clearing /tmp"
> cd /
> /bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.??*
> sync; sync; sync;
Or turn /tmp into a tmpfs mount.
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