On 8/3/06, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 08:20 PM 8/2/2006, you wrote:
>On 8/2/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Michael J McCafferty wrote:
>> > What makes them appear ? What do they do for how long ? Why
>> don't they go
> >> > away when that stops happening ?
>>
>>I have a bunch of them too. They would appear to contain zone data. I
>>imagine the zone transfer puts them into these tmp files which are moved
>>into place and somehow the transfer got interrupted or something.
>
>My observation: there are a few Linux-based application programs that
>create files in /tmp and leave them there forever. Just sloppy
>programmng.
>
>They get reaped by tmpwatch after 10 days of non-use.
>
> carl
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But not in this case.... these are not in /tmp and some of these are
many months old.
So add those directories to the ones reaped by tmpwatch.
Take as your model this line in /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch, which cleans
/var/tmp of files not accessed in 30 days (720 hours).
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
Warning: this advice is RedHat or Fedora specific. There must be an
equivalent for other Linux distributions. In SUSE, one edits
/etc/sysconfig/cron, using YaST2 -> etc/sysconfig Editor.
carl
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