On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:40:00AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > > > Sounds like a job for the userland and cron(8). > > > > uh no. > > > > See: "since cleaning /tmp on a live system is very dangerous" > > So care to elaborate what is dangerous about it?
It's a security FAQ. If you do rm -rf (or nearly any of the other obvious/easy alternatives) in a world-writable directory, a hostile user can interact with it to erase any file on the system. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
