Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 23:58:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cleaning of /tmp in /etc/rc Message-ID: <199606222158.XAA05610@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960622125144.6718C-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 22, 96 12:57:19 pm
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As Tom Samplonius wrote...
> 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.
I don't think the lost+found clause is useless: consider a /tmp that is a
seperately mounted filesystem.
Wilko
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