Gregory Hosler <ghosler@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 03/31/2010 09:52 PM, Maurizio Marini wrote: >> Hi there >> i need a cron script that cleans every day crap into /tmp >> I have there a lot of temp files but i dunno which ones can be safely wiped, >> and it is very time comsuming job, too. >> Any script written by someone of you will be very apreciated :) >> tia >> Maurizio > > There already is a cron that will delete file out of /tmp that are 10 days old. In addition, at shutdown time everything in /tmp is fair game for deletion. As one of the last things done on all my machines I clean out /tmp. In my case the reason isn't space, but clutter. With the default /tmp cleaning, things build up to such a level that downloaded files that I only want to look at once are hard to find (such as pdf files etc). Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755. #!/bin/sh ############################################################################### ## ## ## File: halt.local ## ## Author: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxx> ## ## Created: Thu Jun 7 23:47:14 PDT 2007 ## ## Contents: wsrcc site-specific halt stuff ## ## ## ## Copyright (c) 2007 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht. ## ## All rights reserved. ## ## ## ## $Id$ ## ############################################################################### # wsrcc halt script echo "WSRCC: Clearing /tmp" cd / /bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.??* sync; sync; sync; # # end # -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- 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
