From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 9 2:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.CX (dsl081-006-051.dsl-isp.net [64.81.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE5537C313; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 02:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by server.baldwin.CX (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA00624; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 05:08:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006090908.FAA00624@server.baldwin.CX> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200006081118.MAA18447@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 05:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Brian Somers Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/daily 110.clean-tmps Cc: brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brian Somers , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Jun-00 Brian Somers wrote: >> -On [20000608 10:50], Brian Somers (brian@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >> >brian 2000/06/08 01:48:16 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > etc/periodic/daily 110.clean-tmps >> > Log: >> > Clean /tmp and /var/tmp if $clear_tmp_enable is set to YES in rc.conf >> >> I disagree with this on the pure and simple notion that it comflicts >> with the description of it in hier(7). >> >> /tmp should be cleaned when set to YES. /var/tmp should not. I ask you >> kindly to back the /var/tmp cleaning out please. > > I believe that /var/tmp should be cleanable in some way and would > suggest one of the following changes: I don't. I find having a place for "temporary files that are kept between system reboots" quite useful, for world logs, release logs, etc. You could always just store things you want blown away in /tmp instead. :) What do you have in /var/tmp that you want to blow away every night that the system is putting there? Perhaps it should be changed to use /tmp? > clean (clear_tmp_daily="/tmp /var/tmp /compat/linux/tmp") This, however, is not a bad idea, as some might have a /usr/tmp, etc. > Thoughts/opinions ? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message