On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:02:53PM +0100, DaB. wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> few minutes ago I had to clean ortelius' /tmp again because it was nearly 
> full 
> (there is up to 13GB space).
> Using temp-files is a great thing and we all know that clean-up is boring 
> stuff 
> ??? but please: If you can not make your tools clean after them self then YOU 
> have to clean up for them from time to time. /tmp at ortelius contains over 
> 9000 small files at the moment ??? I VERY doubt that most of them are still 
> needed. So please look what is still needed, fix your tools and/or write a 
> cleaning-script. Otherwise I have to write a system-wide script that will 
> delete all files that are older than x days.
> 
As a hint, apart from cleaning your tmp-files at the end of a script you
can also do:

trap 'rm -f $TEMPFILE; exit' 1 2 3 15

which will be executed if the script gets a kill -1 -2 -3 or -15, so also if
you or an admin needs to kill your script, the files will be deleted anyway.

Regards,

Andre Koopal

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