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
Charles Howse wrote:
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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
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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?
- ------------------------------------- /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 - -------------------------------------
- -- Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
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