I was planning to perform some housekeeping cleanup on a regular basis for
/tmp by including the following command in a cron:
find /tmp -atime +30 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
I was going to do the same for the /var directory and got to thinking that
maybe I will get more than I bargain for. What is everyoneâs opinion about
removing all files that have not been accessed in 30 days for directory
/var? Am I being over zealous?
What about directories? Should I remove empty directories within /tmp and
/var using a command like?:
find /tmp âempty -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
I welcome all comments. Thanks.
Peter
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