Re: Which directory contents I can remove??

[gmspro]

So this is the script that linux uses?
Or this script is used by you?
--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Bruno Wolff III  wrote:
> From: Bruno Wolff III 
> Subject: Re: Which directory contents I can remove??
> To: "Steve Searle" 
> Cc: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 10:25 PM
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:29:36
> +0100,
>   Steve Searle 
> wrote:
> > Around 03:03am on Sunday, June 07, 2009 (UK time),
>
> Bruno Wolff III scrawled:
> > > Normally you don't have to. There is supposed to
>
> be cron job that deletes
> > > files /tmp and /var/tmp that haven't been read or
>
> written in a while.
> > Supposed to be, or is?  Can you give any more
>
> information, esp what it
> > is called?
> >
> > I alsways create my own, and put it in
>
> /etc/cron.daily
>
> That's were the installed one goes.
>
> bash-4.0$ rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
> tmpwatch-2.9.14-1.i586
> bash-4.0$ cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
> #! /bin/sh
> flags=-umc
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x
> /tmp/.XIM-unix \
>     -x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x
> /tmp/.Test-unix 10d /tmp
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" 30d /var/tmp
> for d in
> /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
>     if [ -d "$d" ]; then
>     /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -f 30d "$d"
>     fi
> done
>
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Which directory contents I can remove??

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 15:14:29 -0700,
  gmspro  wrote:
>

Please don't top post.
> So this is the script that linux uses?
> Or this script is used by you?

Stuff in cron.daily is run once a day by cron. So you don't have to manually
run it. If you don't leave your computer on all of the time, then you
probably also want to run the anacron service which is supposed to run
things that got skipped because the system wasn't up at the time they were
supposed to be run.

All of this should have been set up by default. Unless you went and broke
it, you don't need to touch anything.