RE: Can I safely delete all the "0" size files in /home/username/tmp ?

2009-01-04 Thread Lisa Kachold
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Re: Can I safely delete all the "0" size files in /home/username/tmp ?

2009-01-04 Thread James Mcphee
These are sockets for corba. You can safely remove any of the socket files that existed before the last reboot. Your system "should" do this automatically, but I'm guessing whatever you have doesn't clean up your user tmp. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, James Finstrom wrote: > The answer ofte

Re: Can I safely delete all the "0" size files in /home/username/tmp ?

2009-01-04 Thread James Finstrom
The answer often depends on the software I have often seen scripts and programs touch files for reference On 1/4/09, Josef Lowder wrote: > In my /home/username/tmp/orbit -username directory, I have hundreds of files > of "0" (zero) file size dating back three years. Is there any reason > why all

Can I safely delete all the "0" size files in /home/username/tmp ?

2009-01-04 Thread Josef Lowder
In my /home/username/tmp/orbit -username directory, I have hundreds of files of "0" (zero) file size dating back three years. Is there any reason why all these files cannot be deleted? And why aren't they automatically deleted at reboot if the are, in fact, just 'tmp' files? srwxrwxr-x 1 joe jo