From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 25 09:05:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639D44E3 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:05:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sreeramabs@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ve0-x231.google.com (mail-ve0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23E962431 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f177.google.com with SMTP id db12so4316809veb.8 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:05:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=q0U3VsIuadO5CT3/AyuYjPwvSQ2GMvGJPXJ+apjv6QA=; b=MpSegmFMcovfIRiZxOPupj35S3FiWj4wCkVx8L1ot3+trplTLx3hBgzfefDcmr1GQo q1sUZo9otXMdXVswda8wJpHu2GCFzMvjLHc5pGPwfzFv2zs8YjgoalRcMBFT8o3VESJN Jl2vwr3dJf3YN51TSRM3pa5JJxgyso7IAznmwfNwDVHff089OBVoaMP5LP9sshlohGmo wsN/QzrbOijS/8VMxyWGTVdX4lJXaJDZd7LA9lyfTZ7VA4h2o6kfPG3TSx+E0R+178rD ymYWd7I41GPtNnzfnwbnMUaybnM8May2vYHYyFlwM+GqdsHaXmM7G3tmVq1jJ+fLYTcs ZNUA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.108.230 with SMTP id hn6mr9277573vdb.28.1380099933288; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.23.33 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:05:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5242A5E7.5070908@gmail.com> References: <5242A5E7.5070908@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:35:33 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Files in /tmp directory - Is there any timelimit ? From: Sreeram BS To: Volodymyr Kostyrko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:05:34 -0000 Does this auto-cleanup apply to files in /var/tmp directory also. The generic description says that the files in this directory can stay across reboots. So, does this survive auto-cleanup too? regards, Sreeram On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 25.09.2013 11:34, Sreeram BS wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am using FreeBSD 9. I would like to know as to what is the lifetime >> of >> the files in /tmp directory. The general description says that these files >> *may* not be preserved across a reboot. By this I interpret that if the >> system is not rebooted, then these files will be there forever. But, just >> wanted a confirmation to see if there is any lifespan (expiry-time) >> attached with these files (ie the system would flush these files after >> some >> days/months etc automatically). >> > > Not by default. There's a clean-tmps periodic task which can be enabled > @/etc/periodic.conf. It defaults to three days. > > -- > Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. >