Peter wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, laurent oget <laur...@oget.net> wrote: >> We noticed on our production server where we run a lot of rpy scripts, >> that /tmp is filling up with Rtmp* files. Anybody knows if there is a >> way to get those cleared without involving the sysadmin? > > On Linux, the /tmp drive should get cleared out automatically (perhaps > at reboot, which isn't going to happen very often on a production > server?).
The cleaning of the /tmp drive is indeed happening at boot time (although this can be configure - it is the case by default on Debian, it was not the case on Red Hat few years ago). Otherwise, on some machines there is a daemon deleting things in /tmp whenever too old but that's not a magic bullet. > On Windows however, the temp files are never deleted and I > recall having to manually clear out hundreds of them by hand every so > often. I'd been meaning to mention this on the mailing list for some > time, so thank you for the reminder! > > It would be great if rpy and rpy2 could "clean up" after themselves. No one tried removing the erroneous comment prefix for R_CleanTempDir(); in rpy/rinterface/rinterface.c ? L. > Peter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
