Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:08:46 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/43146: rc.conf: clear_tmp_enable=YES doesn't clear /tmp/.[a-zA-Z]* files Message-ID: <200209210008.g8L08ku3022787@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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>Number: 43146
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: rc.conf: clear_tmp_enable=YES doesn't clear /tmp/.[a-zA-Z]* files
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 20 17:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jonathan Chen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
chen.org.nz
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD grimoire.chen.org.nz 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Sep 17 19:47:14 NZST 2002 root@grimoire.chen.org.nz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRIMOIRE i386
>Description:
Setting clear_tmp_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf doesn't remove files
named ".[a-zA-Z]" in /tmp. Quite a few ports and apps (and some users)
tend to leave files in /tmp starting with a '.'.
>How-To-Repeat:
# touch /tmp/.file
# shutdown -r now
>Fix:
Patch for /etc/rc:
--- rc.old Sat Sep 21 12:01:46 2002
+++ rc Sat Sep 21 12:02:40 2002
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
echo -n 'Clearing /tmp:'
# 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]* &&
+ (cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* .[a-zA-Z]* &&
find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quota.user \
! -name quota.group -exec rm -rf -- {} \;)
echo '.'
>Release-Note:
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