On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 05:03:44PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > > I use the following in my crontab. It gets rid of anything over a > week old. > > # Remove old cache files > 10 00 * * * find /tmp -type f -mtime +6 | xargs rm > However, realize that some programs create a file /tmp and then promptly unlink it, thus causing the file to take up space even though it does not have a directory entry. This can be a problem if you have a long-running (as in longer than the interval over which your reaper runs) program.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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