----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:13 PM Subject: [luau] Cleaning /tmp upon boot
> Aloha, > > I noticed today that I have a lot of old stuff in /tmp. The filesystem > standard says this stuff should be 'purged' when the system is rebooted, but > apparently, mine isn't... Does anyone have an init script or a > 'modification' to their rc.local that works??? If so, I'm interested. > > Mahalo, > > Ben I'm not sure if it is safe to put a simple line like "rm -rf /tmp/**" in rc.local because possibly some system processes may be using things within /tmp? I think I recall seeing Mandrake's /tmp cleaner as one of the first thing it does immediately after re-mounting as read/write, with something like rc.sysinit. Hattemer, can you please check where Mandrake does its /tmp cleaning?
