Missing Something.....

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25 at gmail.com>wrote:

> WOW!.....that's a LOT to digest! I wouldn't mind going about it with that
> suggestion of using a tmp directory that automatically empties itself out,
> but I'm wondering if that wouldn't cause problems with the installed
> program?....(I'm so used to just letting the PC do what it wants in regards
> to files!) And I've already had instances (with Windows) where I've changed
> the installation directory for a program and it didn't work as expected
> because fo the change.....sigh~! I guess I'll just have to start reading a
> lot more about Linux and get myself familiar with it's inner workings Thank
> you so much for your advice....!!
>
>
> EGO II
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 23:12 -0400, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
>> > but what would delete all the unnecessary files that are
>> > amassed over time? Surely they're not all listed in the "tmp"
>> > folder!.....
>>
>> It depends on what you mean by "unnecessary files."
>>
>> Temporary files created by programs are created in tmp directories, and
>> are supposedly culled by the system some time later, automatically.
>> There are tmpwatch scripts that handle that.  And if the tmp directory
>> is a tmpfs (temporary file system) mounted on that point, the contents
>> will be lost after shutdown, and during reboot.
>>
>> Web browser cache files are kept within the browsers directories in your
>> homespace.  The browser automatically manages them according to your
>> browser preferences (e.g. if you tell it to use 400 megs of space, it
>> maintains that cache at that level).
>>
>> Packages downloaded by YUM for installing or upgrading are cached
>> within /var/cache/yum (or somewhere similar, if the location has changed
>> since I last manually dealt with it).  And YUM can be set to keep the
>> cache, or prune it when finished installing.  I believe the current
>> defaults are to remove the cached files as it finished.
>>
>> If you manually download files, such as with your web browser, it's up
>> to you to delete them when finished with.  You could semi-automate this
>> by always downloading them to the /tmp directory, so the system will
>> remove them a couple of days after you've finished with them.
>>
>> (Back in my Amiga days, I used to download to, and unpack archives, in
>> the trashcan directory.  It was a normal directory, so that you could
>> use it like that, just with a convenient empty trash function triggered
>> from the desktop icon.)
>>
>> --
>> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>>
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>>
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I recently read something about some malicious bug that can assumedly
infect Linux computers, as well as the usual  MS and Apple excuses for
operating systems. I didn't necessarily believe it as, thankfully, we go
through a lot of permission stuff to install anything. Given this, if one
were so naive to install this virus, would Bleachit be able to get rid of
it? Is the program intuitive enough - or can we program it to be such - to
get rid of this, or any other malicious code for people who might be so
inclined to install it? If we could, given that most viruses for Linux are
contained, we might influence more users over to Linux, or help those who
stubbornly stick with MS or Apple (if we wanted to be altruistic).
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