Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:54:35 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "David E. Tweten" <tweten@frihet.com> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find, Rm, and Root's Crontab Message-ID: <199802231755.JAA02501@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:57:04 PST." <199802211957.LAA16982@ns.frihet.com>
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> robert@cyrus.watson.org said:
> >I have actually found that the best and most enjoyable solution to /
> >tmp-cleaning is to use an MFS-based /tmp.
>
> I agree. I use it. My problem isn't /tmp cleaning. It's cleaning #* files,
> *~ files, core files, etc. from wherever they hide. My exmh #* files, for
> example, live under my home directory in the messages' original folders from
> before they were "deleted" by exmh.
>
> The problem that used to be solved by find and rm, before we discovered that
> they constitute unsafe computing, is (old) junk files wherever they may be
> found.
>
> So, again, did FreeBSD decide to do anything more than comment out junk file
> removal in /etc/daily? If so, is it done and what is it? If not, can I help
Try the -delete flag of find. It is not atomic so a race condition,
though much smaller, still exists.
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