Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:17:32 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal Message-ID: <20020304091732.A73730@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0600 References: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain>
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
[...]
> 110.clean-tmps removes empty directories found within the /tmp directories
> specified. This is, IMHO, a Bad Thing(tm):
Why? The developers at work tend to use /tmp for *lots* of stuff. If the
periodic scripts didn't empty out /tmp regularly, our system would have
heaps of ununsed directories (several layers deep) lying everywhere. If
it bothers you, you can add to the exclusion path, but the default setting
is fine for our systems.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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