On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 12:44:45 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 do see a few lines like removing directory /tmp/.com.google.chrome.NG8UsT if empty so I'm not sure exactly what the criteria are. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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