On Wednesday 14 November 2007 16:27:17 nordi wrote: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Jaco Carlson wrote: > >> Can you safely delete all files in /tmp? > > > > Yes. > > No! > > > Any files which are still in use will be in an OPEN status. > > The process which has the file open will have a handle to > > the file, and accesses the file through the handle (not > > the pathname). > > Wrong. You are forgetting about Shell scripts.
Not to mention pipes and other things that aren't necessarily kept open all the time. After deleting /tmp/kde-<username> and /tmp/.ICE-unix the desktop wouldn't work quite so well. VirtualBox also uses sockets in /tmp to communicate, and it's fairly irrelevant if the server holds it open if the client can't see it anymore So no, it's not a very good idea to clear out /tmp while logged in. Safest (not strictly necessary, but better safe than sorry) is to go to runlevel 1, clean it out, then back to 5 Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
