cleaning /tmp directory
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 20:21:37 UTC 2010
Gregory Hosler <ghosler at redhat.com> writes:
> On 03/31/2010 09:52 PM, Maurizio Marini wrote:
>> Hi there
>> i need a cron script that cleans every day crap into /tmp
>> I have there a lot of temp files but i dunno which ones can be safely wiped,
>> and it is very time comsuming job, too.
>> Any script written by someone of you will be very apreciated :)
>> tia
>> Maurizio
>
> There already is a cron that will delete file out of /tmp that are 10 days old.
In addition, at shutdown time everything in /tmp is fair game for
deletion. As one of the last things done on all my machines I clean out
/tmp. In my case the reason isn't space, but clutter. With the default
/tmp cleaning, things build up to such a level that downloaded files
that I only want to look at once are hard to find (such as pdf files
etc).
Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755.
#!/bin/sh
###############################################################################
## ##
## File: halt.local ##
## Author: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang at wsrcc.com> ##
## Created: Thu Jun 7 23:47:14 PDT 2007 ##
## Contents: wsrcc site-specific halt stuff ##
## ##
## Copyright (c) 2007 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht. ##
## All rights reserved. ##
## ##
## $Id$ ##
###############################################################################
# wsrcc halt script
echo "WSRCC: Clearing /tmp"
cd /
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.??*
sync; sync; sync;
#
# end
#
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
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