Empty /tmp when shutting down

[Charles Howse]

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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:56 am, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Interesting thread...I just looked in /etc/cron.daily, and my default tmpwatch 
file is executable, but doesn't have the shabang line at the top, so it is 
listed as a plain text file.  Is that normal?

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/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
    if [ -d "$d" ]; then
	/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 720 $d
    fi
done
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- -- 
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
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