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From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Cleanup of /tmp
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.152252.12254@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Date: 1 Feb 91 15:22:52 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.152547.28108@shibaya.lonestar.org> <9101311401.AA06966@bisco.kodak.COM>
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> bilbo@bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon) writes:
>> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>> > 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.

It is definitely called on reboot.  This is the only place where I noticed it.
Back in the seagate drive days, I used to have (at least) a crash every few
days and regularly lost all files in /tmp.  If anybody knows of another
script or program that cleans up /tmp, please let us all know.


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