On 31 March 2010 07:51, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:58 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: >> There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Fedora comes with tmpwatch, >> which does exactly what you want - scans /tmp (and possibly other >> directories) and deletes unused files. > > Not quite... It will delete not recently looked at files, whether you > actually used them or not. It's an important distinction, here's why: > > If you do something like list the contents of /tmp in Nautilus or > Konqueror, or use any indexing thingy that looks through /tmp, you've > just /read/ those files again, and reset the timeout. Do that often > enough, and tmpwatch will never clear out those files. > > I've been careful to avoid doing any of that, and still find /very/ old > files in the /tmp directory. I still haven't found out what's doing it. > I think you can play with the options [ -u | -m | -c ] to get what you want. > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
