ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (Evelyn C. Leeper) (03/21/88)
In article <7476@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: > [re /tmp and /usr/tmp being shipped "sticky"] > the system administrator ends up having to periodically clean out > /tmp and /usr/tmp. With this new scheme, he'll have to become > superuser to do this, unless a privileged operator-executable > cleanup utility is provided (or the system is rebooted and does > this on each reboot). As a system administrator, I don't enjoy "baby-sitting" /tmp and /usr/tmp. So I don't--I use the cron to do cleanups (with a shell script): touch /tmp /usr/tmp find /tmp -type f -mtime +0 -print | xargs rm -f 2>/dev/null find /usr/tmp -type f -mtime +2 -print | xargs rm -f 2>/dev/null (You can change the time as necessary. It's a little trickier if you need to do cleanups of files based on hours rather than days, but it can be done.) I also use this script to send me mail if /usr is starting to run low and lots of other neat things. Moral: Use the cron! Evelyn C. Leeper 201-957-2070 UUCP: mtune!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com ARPA: ecl%mtgzy@att.arpa