On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:47:55AM -0600, Robert wrote: > Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:49:31AM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote: > > > >>Hello Matt > >> > >> > >>>I would like to clean out my /tmp partition as per the tip at .... > >Cleaning out /tmp /var/tmp by hand should be unnecessary beyond removing > >the > >occasional big junk file. > > > >See: /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch > to verify that cron.daily was working. It was. > Then I tried executing (as root) > > [root@mavis root]# /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp > > and I *still* have a bunch of old files in /tmp > > [root@mavis root]# find /tmp -ctime +10 | wc -l > 613 Are you finding files or directories. I do see a list of empty dirs that make /tmp look untidy. An "rmdir /tmp/* " cleans out only the empty ones. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
