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From: Kevin <koquinn@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:01:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4792C782.1070806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080120023455.GC5048@sympatico.ca>

Philip Webb wrote:
> 080119 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. 
> 
> No, it doesn't: some system setting I'm missing ?
> 

To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot. Change WIPE_TMP to yes in
/etc/conf.d/bootmisc
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-20  4:02 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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

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