From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 3 12:17:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E87037B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g23KHWp73762; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:17:32 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:17:32 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: stable at FreeBSD Subject: Re: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal Message-ID: <20020304091732.A73730@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message