*** Reply to message from Leendert Meyer on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:04:52 +0100 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

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Hint... Did you try the 'Search' option?

yast -> system -> Cron -> CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP

Yup. And perhaps 'grep TMP /etc/sysconfig/*' would do too. ;)

hey guys, I just tried that on a 9.1 box and you can find the line w/ search n/p BUT your choices are "go to" and cancel. I tried go to thinking it would bring up the document to edit .. but it doesn't do anything that is visible, and it doesn't ever show up w/ the file to edit. that is just weird, since there used to be a fairly easy edit method IIRC OF course for the terminally curious there is the old fashioned, find it in the cron section in /etc and edit the cron.daily there. It's odd tho that is the only way to edit the sys files. I thought there was a long tree w/ all the posible edits there to be essentially checked on or off... can't find that now . Musta drive somebody bats FWIW it says in /cron.daily suse.de-clean-tmp and that is where the instructions are to actuate it, or so it seems on a cursory read.. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? '

*** Reply to message from Leendert Meyer on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:11:05 +0100 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

Seems you're replying to two mails, and that confuses me. You are not clear about /what/ you tried. What *exactly* did you try?

Sorry Leen, And anyone else I managed to confuse I tried this: Yast ->System ->/etc/sysconfig Editor-> ( pause here to input Administrator password ) having entered the password it brings me a page w/ a search button, lower left an abort button lower middle and a finish button on the lower right. Pushing the search button brings up a dialog, as it should , for me to enter a search term , or string .. then it brings up in response to "cron" as a search string , a series of lines in the "search results" window. One of which is the MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP where should you care to edit the line, your only choice is a button which says Go to or second choice is Cancel... the "go to button" never goes anywhere , it closes the search window as one would expect it to do on "cancel" I found that a little weird. Then I went to /etc/cron.daily and found the Suse.de-clean-tmp file and read it. But to edit a file to make the system delete or clean those files on boot up, /etc/sysconfig/cron will allow editing, if , of course, you have root permission. And the Cron.daily/suse-de-clean-tmp shows you what the options are for changing. I was mainly commenting upon his statement that he couldn't do it via yast. I was unalbe to make the changes w/ yast -> system -> /etc/sysconfig editor either. And to be perfectly clear, I am trying it on a 9.1 box. It hasn't graduated to 9.2 yet. <G> My other comment was, I thought there used to be a way to edit those files from a similarly named sysconfig editor page in yast where there was a great Tree of items and you could make whatever changes were allowed by the system there w/ little effort, even if a bit of patience was required to locate the bit of information you wished to change, that's all. Hope this hasn't muddled it more. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? '

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:33, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

*** Reply to message from Leendert Meyer on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:11:05 +0100 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

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Seems you're replying to two mails, and that confuses me. You are not clear about /what/ you tried. What *exactly* did you try?

Sorry Leen,

No problem, you explained below, thanks. :)

And anyone else I managed to confuse I tried this: Yast ->System ->/etc/sysconfig Editor-> ( pause here to input Administrator password ) having entered the password it brings me a page w/ a search button, lower left an abort button lower middle and a finish button on the lower right. Pushing the search button brings up a dialog, as it should , for me to enter a search term , or string .. then it brings up in response to "cron" as a search string , a series of lines in the "search results" window. One of which is the MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP where should you care to edit the line, your only choice is a button which says Go to or second choice is Cancel... the "go to button" never goes anywhere ,

Perhaps you need to select an item with the mouse or keyboard first?

it closes the search window as one would expect it to do on "cancel" I found that a little weird.

So do I. Ok, you tried Patrick's way, and somehow it didn't work. Maybe try the old fashioned way: grepping /etc/sysconfig/*, and edit the found file. Still does work well. :)

Then I went to /etc/cron.daily and found the Suse.de-clean-tmp file and read it. But to edit a file to make the system delete or clean those files on boot up, /etc/sysconfig/cron will allow editing, if , of course, you have root permission. And the Cron.daily/suse-de-clean-tmp shows you what the options are for changing.

I was mainly commenting upon his statement that he couldn't do it via yast. I was unalbe to make the changes w/ yast -> system -> /etc/sysconfig editor either. And to be perfectly clear, I am trying it on a 9.1 box. It hasn't graduated to 9.2 yet. <G>

I do it on a 9.2 box (a slightly hacked DVD version). ;) The search and goto works overhere.

My other comment was, I thought there used to be a way to edit those files from a similarly named sysconfig editor page in yast where there was a great Tree of items and you could make whatever changes were allowed by the system there w/ little effort, even if a bit of patience was required to locate the bit of information you wished to change, that's all.

Huh? AFAIU that great tree of items /is/ the sysconfig editor.

Hope this hasn't muddled it more.

Nah. ;)) Cheers, Leen

On Sunday 21 November 2004 2:48 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [11-15-04 14:13]:

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Whilst reading through the list email, I decided it would be a good idea to clear out my own /tmp directory.

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This is all on a 9.0 system

Hint... Did you try the 'Search' option?

Oh I tried that in any place it would let me search :)

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yast -> system -> Cron -> CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP

Hi, Make that YAST >SYSTEM > ?etc/sysconfig editor >System >Cron then choose your option and then enable it. PeterB