Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:15:59 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal Message-ID: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain>
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Hello all. My bad if this is the wrong forum; apologies up front.
I was going to enable a couple of periodic scripts, 100.clean-disks and
110.clean-tmps, until I read the fine print.
100.clean-disks has no allowance for excluding paths; I would not want
it to clean core dumps or a.out within $(HOME) directories, for instance.
It'd blow away any one or another project's progress should it be left
longer than the specified age.
110.clean-tmps removes empty directories found within the /tmp directories
specified. This is, IMHO, a Bad Thing(tm):
# ls -aF /tmp
./ .rplay-cache/ mutt-sheol-5680-0~
../ mutt-sheol-47410-2~ mutt-sheol-5734-2~
.X0-lock mutt-sheol-47505-1~ mutt-sheol-5827-0~
.X11-unix/ mutt-sheol-48368-1~
.cdaudio/ mutt-sheol-48593-0
# ls -aF /var/tmp
./ psionic/ tmp.0.vRGQRV~
../ tmp.0.q483H8~ vi.recover/
It would have bothered me greatly to wake up next week and find these
listed subdirectories, or any others, missing.
I realize I can copy these scripts - or any of 'em - to /usr/local/...
and modify them as I please, but it still seems to me they (and p'raps
others?) take too much for granted.
Comments welcome,
Dave
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