Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:30:15 +0000 From: "Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp running out of inodes Message-ID: <20081218183015.GH5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com> References: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:54:33AM -0800, Tankko wrote:
> On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from
> /tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. Is
> clean up commonly done as a cron job? What about files like
> mysql.sock=3D which are important. I can't just blindly remove
> everything in /tmp each night.
As Kirk has already said, you need to figure why this is happening in=20
the first place, but there is a periodic job which can help keep /tmp
tidy for you. It is in /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps and can be
enabled with this in /etc/periodic.conf:
daily_clean_tmps_enable=3D"YES"
You can tailor its behaviour depending on your needs - look for the
relevant knobs in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
Dan
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