On Sul, 2004-12-12 at 21:40, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: > 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
There are better tools for this (tmpwatch for example) that know a bit more about where to be careful. > 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? Probably. If someone leaves mail for a month should it vanish ? /var/tmp is temporary but the rest of /var is merely writable not always temporary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
