On 06/22/2011 07:44 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. > I think the problem there is the flags used by the cron are -umc and the man page has a "warning" about this when it comes to -u When run with -m it does more of what I think you'd want it to do.... That is want I found out when I just ran it with only -m. Ed _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
