virtuoso-opensource

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/22/2011 07:44 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp
>>> of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
>>>
>>> Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
>>>
>>> I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals?
>>> Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
>> On a weekly basis I run
>>
>> tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
>>
>> It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough
>> to
>> have an age limit on the files it removes).  You can equally run a cron
>> job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I see I do actually have tmpwatch in /etc/cron.daily ,
> which removes /tmp files, with some exceptions, after 10 days.
> But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 
>    4 drwx------. 2 tim  tim     4096 Jun  4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37
> and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories,
> even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories,
> which mine seem to be.
>

I think the problem there is the flags used by the cron are -umc and the
man page has a "warning" about this when it comes to -u

When run with -m it does more of what I think you'd want it to do.... 
That is want I found out when I just ran it with only -m.

Ed