Anne Wilson wrote: >> Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp >> of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini . >> >> Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* . >> >> I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? >> Or does one have to specify this somewhere? > > On a weekly basis I run > > tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp > > It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough > to > have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron > job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one. Thanks for the response. I see I do actually have tmpwatch in /etc/cron.daily , which removes /tmp files, with some exceptions, after 10 days. But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37 and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories, even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories, which mine seem to be. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
