Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Can I safely assume that as long as there is no one logged on, besides
root to delete all the files in the /tmp directory, that I could safely
use the command:

#> rm -fr /tmp/*   ??

Reading the email further I see that it can be enabled via YAST but when 
I tried, I failed :(

Richard Bos wrote:
>>
>>>Anders Johansson wrote:
>>>
>>>>It is a good idea though to clean up old and unused junk. So setting
>>>>CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP to "yes" would be a good idea
>>>
>>>Where's that option found?
>>
>>Oh, sorry, it's in /etc/sysconfig/cron
Anders, I see that file on my 9.0 system is empty. Should I insert 
CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP=yes in it?

Thought I'd try adding the option via YAST, courtesy of Richard's post, 
but...

> yast -> system -> misc -> editor for sysconfig files.
> than: system -> cron
... does not lead to a solution as my sysconfig file editor in under 
system and there is no subdirectory Misc, only a Misc 'brother' to System.

This is all on a 9.0 system

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