From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 8 6:10:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF02537BFB9 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 06:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 12179 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2000 13:10:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bde.zeta.org.au) (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 8 Jun 2000 13:10:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:10:25 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/daily 110.clean-tmps In-Reply-To: <20000608112612.D82993@lucifer.bart.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20000608 10:50], Brian Somers (brian@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > >brian 2000/06/08 01:48:16 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > etc/periodic/daily 110.clean-tmps > > Log: > > Clean /tmp and /var/tmp if $clear_tmp_enable is set to YES in rc.conf > > I disagree with this on the pure and simple notion that it comflicts > with the description of it in hier(7). hier(7) only describes the (not very useful) cleaning that happens at boot time. Periodic cleaning needs to be much more conservative for /var/tmp than for /tmp (if clear_tmp_enable is set). /tmp may be fully cleaned without warning at any time because the system may crash at any time :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message