From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:49:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801201049.12486.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4792AC74.8000500@bellsouth.net>
On Sunday 20 January 2008, Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
> > A problem I have is that Firefox is not deleting .pdf files from
> > /tmp after I have viewed & saved them elsewhere (using Kpdf).
> > There seems to be no place in Firefox or Kpdf settings to change
> > this. Does anyone have a useful suggestion for automatically
> > deleting them ?
>
> Since /tmp has been talked about on -dev, reboot will do it.
Only if /tmp is a tmpfs.
On a machine used as a desktop, this is a good idea as they are rebooted
often and the FHS states that the contents of /tmp should not be relied
on to survive a reboot.
On a server style machine that is not rebooted often, tmpwatch running
in a cron does a good job of this.
alan
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 1:39 [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp Philip Webb
2008-01-20 2:05 ` Dale
2008-01-20 2:34 ` Philip Webb
2008-01-20 4:01 ` Kevin
2008-01-20 4:55 ` Philip Webb
2008-01-20 8:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-01-21 2:23 ` Philip Webb
2008-01-22 3:35 ` Erik
2008-01-22 4:43 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-01-20 8:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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