On Saturday 14 April 2001 1:35 am, you wrote:
> > this is a dumb question : do the files in /tmp get deleted on logout ?
> > I
>
> No, they don't.
Not quite true. On install you can set up mandrake to delete all the files in
/tmp on reboot. Most of the files in /tmp will just be writen over so /tmp
should not grow to large 400mb seems big though, mine is 2.0mb ( whats that
800 times smaller). I would set up mandrake to delete these files on reboot.,
and/or do what David suggested.
> > decided to tar them all to see what difference they made, but the tar was
> > 400 MB (not kidding). Can I delete these files or does Mandrake (7.2)
> > need them
>
> Sounds like you have a lot of files in /tmp. Usually, these files only
> need to be arouhd temporarily (hence /tmp) and can be gotten rid of. Many
> are sockets and other special files (kde / gnome uses those particularly)
> and shouldn't be deleted. But those shouldn't be taking up any dik space.
>
> Mandrake doesn't automatically delete the files in /tmp, but there is a
> script called 'tmpwatch' which may be on Mandrake which you can install,
> and set up a script in /etc/cron.daily to run, so that once a day, all
> files older than N days would get deleted.
>
> > Al Justrabo
>
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