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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Cleaning of /tmp in /etc/rc
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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