Ummm... if you look at the rc.config, there's a section that specifies to clean out certain directories... like /tmp and /var/tmp. It also allows you to specify how logn files should stay in temp and if there are files of specific owners (like root) that should not be removed. - Herman On Wed, 3 May 2000, S.Toms wrote: ->>On Wed, 3 May 2000, L.V.Gandhi wrote: ->> ->>lg> I have a lot of dir and files in tmp dir older than the current date. I ->>lg> have many dir XF86Setup with diff numbers like XF86Setup213/ and ->>lg> xf86config dir and sax dir in suse. are they useful. ->>lg> ->> ->> You can try the following within your /etc/crontab file, I set it up ->>when I got tired of deleting it manually. ->> ->>0 * * * * root test -e /tmp && find /tmp -type f -atime +5 -exec rm -f {} \; ->> ->>the previous should all be on one line. I have it check every hour on the ->>hour for things older then 5 days. I also have it scanning files only, but ->>if you want it to delete directories then remove the '-type f' option in ->>the above cron line. ->> ->>lg> Second I have /tmp dir in wine.conf. When wine was run as root, it ->>lg> didn't say. when run as user it complained ' ->>lg> -- Warning: The Temporary Directory (as specified in your configuration ->>lg> file) is NOT writeable.' ->>lg> but dir permission is drwxrwxrwt. any comments to deal these? ->>lg> ->> ->> Can't help you on the wine problem. Sorry. ->> ->>-- ->> S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas ->> SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 ->> ->> ->> ->>-- ->>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ ->> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/