On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:56:13PM +0000, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > While checking over my system (9-CURRENT AMD64) I was a bit > surprised to find tons of old files that were hanging around in my > /var/tmp that were never deleted/cleaned out. Most of the offenders > were dbus, KDE and PCSCD files. To be honest, I never really checked > the /var/tmp directory as I normally use the /tmp for generic stuff > (unpacking archives, etc). I was wondering if there should be a > startup rc script that cleans this directory as well. I copied and > modified the existing /etc/rc.d/cleartmp (now > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clearvartmp) to do this job and would be > interested in knowing if this is a good idea or if there are any ill > effects that I didn't anticipate by doing this. > Should the /var/tmp directory be cleaned on bootup? To me, it > looked like it should as many of the files in the KDE directory were > partial download files many months old. Like all temporary directories, it is a good idea to clean stale files from /var/tmp, but hier(7) explicitly says that /var/tmp is not cleared on reboot. In particular, nvi's recovery system puts files in /var/tmp/vi.recover/ and assumes they will not be deleted by a reboot (see /etc/rc.d/virecover). What could be done is deleting, on reboot, all files older than some threshold, e.g. one week. Another alternative is to enable /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps. That one is a bit overzealous though, also deleting sockets that are still in use. > I have included the script I used in this email, but would like > to point out that I am not the author of the original script, I mearly > modified the existing one to do as I wanted. The attachment seems missing. -- Jilles TjoelkerReceived on Sun Dec 27 2009 - 22:22:13 UTC
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