Re: [Sheflug] Can I bin this stuff?

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 07:51:17PM +0100, Al Hudson wrote:
> 
> > Are they temporary files and directories that the OS has created and not 
> > deleted, but which can now be safely deleted and is there something wrong 
> > with my configuration which is causing the OS not to delete them automatically?
> If something's in /tmp, and it's deletable, then there shouldn't be any
> harm in deleting it, crap applications not withstanding. I guess if you
> delete the kfm cache, it may make kfm slightly slower as it recaches (?
> dunno, but I would guess that's how it works), but I don't think you'll
> break anything..

	Debian tends to wipe everything off /tmp on INIT, and KDE worked
fine, so you can delete them.

	Here's an snip of the relevant init script:

#
# bootmisc.sh	Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup.
#
# Version:	@(#)bootmisc.sh  2.78  13-Nov-1999  miquels [at] cistron.nl
#
			<snip><snip><snip>
#
# Wipe /tmp (and don't erase `lost+found', `quota.user' or `quota.group')!
# Note that files _in_ lost+found _are_ deleted.
#
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && echo -n "Cleaning: /tmp "
#
#	If $TMPTIME is set to 0, we do not use any ctime expression
#	at all, so we can also delete files with timestamps
#	in the future!
#
if [ "$TMPTIME" = 0 ]
then
	TEXPR=""
else
	TEXPR="! -ctime -$TMPTIME"
fi
( cd /tmp && \
  find . -xdev \
  $TEXPR \
  ! -name . \
  ! \( -name lost+found -uid 0 \) \
  ! \( -name quota.user -uid 0 \) \
  ! \( -name quota.group -uid 0 \) \
    -depth -exec rm -rf -- {} \; )
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock

	This should do the trick nicely :)
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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