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From: bilbo@bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon)
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Subject: Re: Cleanup of /tmp
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Date: 31 Jan 91 14:01:48 GMT
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In <1991Jan30.152547.28108@shibaya.lonestar.org>, afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
> In article <1991Jan29.171729.11768@stb.info.com> michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) writes:
> >
> >I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge.
> >
> It's /etc/.cleanup.  The offending line is rm -rf /tmp/*.  I have commented
> it and my files no longer disappear.

When does this get called?  I like to have /tmp cleaned up when I reboot,
but not at some arbitrary interval.

> -- 
> Augustine Cano		INTERNET: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org

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