Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:57:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cleaning of /tmp in /etc/rc Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960622125144.6718C-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199606221308.PAA27308@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
> Does anybody know what the following is for?
>
> # prune quickly with one rm, then use find to clean up /tmp/[lq]*
> # (not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt there...)
> (cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* &&
> find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quotas -exec rm -rf -- {} \;)
It's supposed to delete everything in /tmp except lost+found and
quota.user and/or quota.group
I believe lost+found can be safetly removed.
It doesn't actually avoid the quota files properly. It should probably
also check whether the quota files are owned by root.
Tom
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