[LIH] cleaning /tmp was [ what is this meaning ]

[sreangsu acharyya]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Binand Raj S. wrote:

>     >>  Security issues. One has to be very careful about doing
>     >> something like that.  I guess you are suggesting something
>     >> like: find /tmp | xargs rm -rf which can cause quite a lot of

> Yes - that is one. Another is directory names that end in
> newlines. Fortunately, find/xargs have command line switches to take

that reminds me, tmpwatch used to scheduled to run at 4am and it used
sound wierd with all 250 pc's going whirrrrr... for no apparent reason at
all. Quite a symphony. Finally came to know about it when i had lost a
mesa installation, that i had kept in /tmp in one of our lab machines

-- sreangsu


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