On Mon, 07 May 2001, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
> Hallo,
> I just want to avoid to make mistakes. In my /tmp directory, there are _lots_of
> empty directories, like tkdesk1027, tkdesk1054..., _some_hundreds of secret
> files like .SuSEconfig.susehilf.vxC0rX etc. and some thousends of other files I
> never have created, used or seen before.
> Question: any danger in eliminate all files in a /tmp directory ?
> The same happens with a lot of wtmp-2001mmdd.gz files in the
> /var/log-directory.
> The harddisk consumption of these directories is significant, I would like to
> clean up the files contained, if possible.
> Thanks in advance
> Edgar
I dont think you could make a mistake, "providing" that you firstly close all
running programs before deleting files, or even better i would go to runlevel 1
(init 1) delete the files then return to whatever runlevel you normaly use.
I have deleted all files in my /tmp dir before, i saw no ill effects.
Having said that, some distro's do place thier install log files there.
As to /var/log, i copy the last 100 lines of all files before recreating them,
then i copy the last 100 lines to the same file.
As to wtmp*.gz i see no need to keep them.
Normally speaking, anything in your /tmp dir could indeed be considered
"tempory".
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