From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 23 01:51:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA13708 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 01:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13702 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 01:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA00679 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:51:18 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02791 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:51:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA02902 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:48:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606230848.KAA02902@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Cleaning of /tmp in /etc/rc To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:48:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Tom Samplonius at "Jun 22, 96 12:57:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Samplonius wrote: > > Does anybody know what the following is for? > > > > # prune quickly with one rm, then use find to clean up /tmp/[lq]* > > # (not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt there...) > > (cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* && > > find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quotas -exec rm -rf -- {} \;) > > It's supposed to delete everything in /tmp except lost+found and > quota.user and/or quota.group But you missed my second part. It does a lousy job in cleaning, and even fails to clean the .X*lock files (which it really should), it also fails to clean all other dot files -- so it's essentially useless. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)