From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 19 05:05:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA17291 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 05:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.42.org (sec@matrix.42.org [192.68.213.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA17283 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 05:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA13633; Mon, 19 May 1997 14:05:41 +0200 To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Path: sec From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.bugs Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp Date: 19 May 1997 14:05:40 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <199705190542.HAA17551@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <2888.864024652@time.cdrom.com> X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <2888.864024652@time.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Semi on the same topic. What about making daily read rc.conf or something > > and then make the regular cleaning of /tmp configurable. That way daily > > also needn't be edited locally. > > That's an interesting idea - I assume we'd do the same for weekly and > monthly? Any objections? No. Go ahead, that really sounds great :) btw. what about putting the following into daily ? : [ -x /usr/local/etc/daily.local ] && . /usr/local/etc/daily.local so there would be no m ore reason to edit daily, and you could easily update it with a newer version without fearing that you might loose your carefully hand-crafted changes ? CU, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error