Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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. Thanks very much. I'll try that. -- 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
