In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Josep Serrano wrote: >>>On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >>> >>>>Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? >>> >>>Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. >>> >> >> >> Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the >> bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional >package if >> you already have the stuff to the the job? >> >> Maybe I am wrong and it is a bad idea using bootclean.sh in crond ? > >My understanding (I am not a Linux guru) is that it is risky >to remove things from /tmp while the system is "up", as >some apps, for example X Window system, store stuff in there >which they don't need to survive a boot, but do need to keep >clickin' > >So using a script may not be a Good Thing.
That's true. Bootclean.sh is just a step in the bootup sequence, it wasn't designed to be called manually or by cron. Tmpreaper probably does 'the right thing' Mike. -- Freedom is no longer a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
