Empty /tmp when shutting down
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Feb 25 11:56:26 UTC 2004
Robert Vangel wrote:
> You could create a init script in rc6.d and rc0.d which does an
>
> rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.*
>
> I don't think it has one built in though
>
> Coume - Lubox.com wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Is it possible to empty the /tmp directory when I shutdown my laptop?
>> If I remember well, I was doing that under MDK but I cannot remember how
>> :/
>>
>> Thxs in advance
>> Ludo
>
Better yet - check out tmpwatch. And there is a daily cron job which
cleans out temporary files more than a certain number of hours old. See
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch and edit the times there if you want to delete
them sooner. In any case there is a mechanism to delete old temp files
and that is where it is controlled. So you could do nothing and know
that the /tmp files will be deleted in 10 days.
Chris
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