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Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>, jilles@stack.nl
Subject: Re: Clearing /var/tmp on boot
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Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
> Thanks Doug and Jilles, 
> 	I hadent thought about that and now that I see the man page, I understand. I 
> think I will implement what Julles suggested and change the script in my 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d to clear out the files after some period of time so that 
> really old (and hopefully useless) items are deleted. 

FYI, mergemaster stores a bunch of stuff in /var/tmp if you use the -P
option (which I recommend that everyone do).


Doug

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