What is removing files from /tmp?

Dean S. Messing deanm at sharplabs.com
Thu May 3 06:25:17 UTC 2012


Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 08:44 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> > Now that you know my dirty little secret, can you tell me what could be
> > gratuitously cleaning /tmp?
> 
> Thank you for satisfying my curiosity.  Alas, the only thing I could 
> have suggested is tmpwatch, and you've already eliminated that as a 
> possibility.  However, now that I think about it, do you have BleachBit 
> set to run at boot, or any other time automatically?  If so, it might be 
> set to clear /tmp.

I was unaware of BleachBit.  Unfortunately, both

   locate -i bleach

and

  rpm -qa | fgrep -i bleach

return the null string.  Thanks for the suggestion.
This is really quite frustrating.  It's like I have
a daemon on my system.

Dean


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