Xref: utzoo comp.misc:9931 comp.unix.questions:24994 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Your favourite rm in /tmp (was: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (...)) Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 22:38:20 GMT References: <730@coma.UUCP> <2987@awdprime.UUCP> <2400@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <4002@rtifs1.UUCP> <58702@bbn.BBN.COM> <7249@star.cs.vu.nl> <13633@ulysses.att.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <13633@ulysses.att.com> andys@ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes: > which gets rid of trash which has not been accessed for 3 days, was > removing the UNIX(R) domain socket from /tmp/x11-unix. :-(. What was it doing there? A socket can be anywhere... how about /dev? > (Hint, only trash real files, and then remove empty directories.) How about "don't put permanent files in /tmp"? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com