On Friday 17 February 2006 09:22, Joey Hess wrote: > Josep Serrano wrote: > > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the > > bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional > > package if you already have the stuff to the the job? > > > > Maybe I am wrong and it is a bad idea using bootclean.sh in crond ? > > bootclean.sh is not secure for use on multiuser systems. It is very easy > to trick it into deleting files that are not in /tmp. > > Note that tmpreaper is also insecure for use on multiuser systems, > despite the protestations of its maintainer to the contrary.
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