I have loads of stuff in /tmp... for example following.. 0011060475 0599923142 gaimG2cwgf isj1XMLEL ksocket-pp migrate-1 0024762619 0914599738 gaimHQw0sa isjV9rE09 ksocket-ps xauth.XXXXODfn1h 0165799984 1361491948 gaim_ps.1315 ismp001 ksocket-root 0432135673 1367389618 gaim_ps.2042 ismp002 mcop-pp 0550766388 2140889804 gaim_ps.2390 kde-pp mcop-ps 0556431942 YaST2-03020 gaimmQetvl kde-ps mcop-root 0577106449 YaST2.tdir isj1HKdpS kde-root migrate all the 10-digit sets are dirs, the rest are files of some sort... Are these really still needed, or just abandoned and for some reason forgotten, These take some diskspace, so I rather get rid off these... I know if I have stored something here temporarily, but does my system need these possibly or can I safely just delete these ? P_tr
Your directory structure is similar to mine. Just to find out, I deleted everything. Still fine... Judging from your listing, you can delete -everything-. Is you're not sure, just rename it and leave it alone for a little bit. If all's ok after that, delete it. On Sunday 08 December 2002 07:36, p p wrote:
I have loads of stuff in /tmp... for example following..
0011060475 0599923142 gaimG2cwgf isj1XMLEL ksocket-pp migrate-1 0024762619 0914599738 gaimHQw0sa isjV9rE09 ksocket-ps xauth.XXXXODfn1h 0165799984 1361491948 gaim_ps.1315 ismp001 ksocket-root 0432135673 1367389618 gaim_ps.2042 ismp002 mcop-pp 0550766388 2140889804 gaim_ps.2390 kde-pp mcop-ps 0556431942 YaST2-03020 gaimmQetvl kde-ps mcop-root 0577106449 YaST2.tdir isj1HKdpS kde-root migrate
all the 10-digit sets are dirs, the rest are files of some sort... Are these really still needed, or just abandoned and for some reason forgotten, These take some diskspace, so I rather get rid off these... I know if I have stored something here temporarily, but does my system need these possibly or can I safely just delete these ?
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On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 14:02, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
Your directory structure is similar to mine. Just to find out, I deleted everything. Still fine...
If you are using things like ssh-agent you probably want to leave things like (directory) ssh-???????? alone. When you reboot your box, you can safely in the reboot process remove anything in /tmp. Compare with tmpfs which is a "virtual" filesystem. When you reboot, anything stored in /tmp is gone.
Judging from your listing, you can delete -everything-. Is you're not sure, just rename it and leave it alone for a little bit. If all's ok after that, delete it.
Deleting things in /tmp while the system is running can cause problems unless what you deleting is known to you and you know it isn't used. Compilers tend to use space in /tmp to store temporary files etc. HTH, -- Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com> Trudheim Technology Ltd. - AIX and Linux System Administrator PGP Usage Strongly Advised!! My Key ID = 4B20601A Fingerprint = 1B11 2F8C CBD6 7E53 E246 B23B 2D8C B0AA 4B20 601A
pp> all the 10-digit sets are dirs, the rest are files of some sort... Are pp> these really still needed, or just abandoned and for some reason pp> forgotten, These take some diskspace, so I rather get rid off these... I pp> know if I have stored something here temporarily, but does my system pp> need these possibly or can I safely just delete these ? Great question. I thought the cron job(s) (setup by SuSE) was suppose to be deleting everything in the /tmp directory. I have the similar files, guess I should go look at that cron job :-) Everything in the /tmp directory is suppose to be really temporary, so I would say it is okay to get rid of them. I'd be interested in knowing more about the files/directories in /tmp. I looked at one of the numeric directories and there was a hidden directory, .qt, and below that was a file qtrc and another hidden directory .qtrc.lock. The contents of the qtrc file was: [General] useXft=true Thank you. -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer@hotmail.com
Op zondag 8 december 2002 17:11, schreef DJ:
pp> all the 10-digit sets are dirs, the rest are files of some sort... Are pp> these really still needed, or just abandoned and for some reason pp> forgotten, These take some diskspace, so I rather get rid off these... I pp> know if I have stored something here temporarily, but does my system pp> need these possibly or can I safely just delete these ?
Great question. I thought the cron job(s) (setup by SuSE) was suppose to be deleting everything in the /tmp directory. I have the similar files, guess I should go look at that cron job :-)
Do you use mozilla to display the contents of /tmp directory. I suspect that the access time of files are being modified by mozilla. Some years ago this was a problem with konqueror, but that has been dealed with about 2 years ago. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
The 02.12.08 at 10:11, DJ wrote:
Great question. I thought the cron job(s) (setup by SuSE) was suppose to be deleting everything in the /tmp directory. I have the similar files, guess I should go look at that cron job :-)
/etc/sysconfig/cron: # cron.daily can check for old files in tmp-dirs. It will delete all files # not accessed for more than MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP. If MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP is not set # or set to 0, this feature will be disabled. # MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP=0 It is 0 by default; I'm changing it to 30 right away. Even so, files owned by root are not deleted, unless you say so :-) If you preffer to delete them at boot up, then change this: # "Set this to "yes" to entirely remove (rm -rf) all files and subdirectories # from the temporary directories defined in TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR on bootup. # Please note, that this feature ignores OWNER_TO_KEEP_IN_TMP - all files will # be removed without exception." CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP="no" -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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