Am 31.03.2010 16:51, schrieb Tim: Hi! > 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: I did not want to exaggerate the distinction between creation/modification/access time - simplifications are helpful in explanations. ;) But yes, there is clearly a difference. Just listing the contents of a directory will not change the file access time, but reading the files surely will. > 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 do not have those problems because my /tmp partition is encrypted and recreated on every reboot with a random key. Another idea which might help: create a script /sbin/halt.local which deletes all contents of /tmp. Or calls tmpwatch which can pay attention to the modification time. This way /tmp can be purged at least on every reboot - still, it does not help on machines which are running for a long time. -- bye Adalbert -- 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
