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 -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
