Empty /tmp when shutting down

[Robert Vangel]

Yep.

Charles Howse wrote:

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> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06:16 am, Robert Vangel wrote:
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>>Yes, the line at the top is merely to make sure that it uses /bin/sh as
>>the interpreter.
>>
>>The cron entry for cron.daily would have /bin/sh as the command to
>>execute, and having /etc/cron.daily/* as an argument, so that everything
>>gets executed by /bin/sh
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> Oh, OK, I see how it works.  So scripts in /etc/cron.daily can either have the 
> shabang iine or not, and they will all be executed when /etc/crontab runs the 
> runparts line for that directory?
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>>Charles Howse wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:56 am, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
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>>>>Robert Vangel wrote:
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>>>>>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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