In SuSE 8.0 there is a script in /etc/cron.daily called 'suse.de-clean-tmp' This script is called by the 'cron' or anacron daemon. The exact actions are set in the file /etc/sysconfig/cron. When booting, arrange for the cron and/or anacron daemons to be launched - use the runlevel editor - The file /etc/crontab gives the timings - for details see man cron and man -S5 crontab. I use it to keep my /tmp directory in order. I am sorry to refer you to the command line. I only use GUIs if I have to. Hope this helps Basil Fowler On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 11:47, zentara wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:22:00 +1000 Basil Chupin wrote:

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DB Troll wrote:

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What is the best way to go about cleaning up the hard drive af no longer needed files and directory left over from various downloads etc. My temp directory alone is almost 400mb. TIA

I, too, am interested in knowing the best way (specifically, which files can be deleted) so would appreciate someone who knows the answer responding to the request above -- or at least providing the place to go to to find the answer.

There is a setting in yast2 somewhere for "max days in temp", but honestly I can't find it in yast2.

I delete everything out of my temp directory evertime I shut the machine down, of course I just have a desktop dialout.

You can put this in halt.local ############################ #!/bin/sh rm -r /tmp/.* rm -r /tmp/* rm -r /var/tmp/.* rm -r /var/tmp/* ############################

#or if you never reboot........you can delete files older than a certain time ############################# #!/usr/bin/perl # For each file in the folder.. while() { # If the file is not a directory, and is older than 45 minutes, delete it if ((!-d $_) && (-M $_ > .03124)) { unlink $_; } } ##############################

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Yast2 file cleanup is in yast2/system/editor for (/etc/sysconfig files) system/cron. You can adjust days, directory etc...

On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 07:35, Basil Fowler wrote:

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In SuSE 8.0 there is a script in /etc/cron.daily called 'suse.de-clean-tmp' This script is called by the 'cron' or anacron daemon. The exact actions are set in the file /etc/sysconfig/cron.

When booting, arrange for the cron and/or anacron daemons to be launched - use the runlevel editor -

The file /etc/crontab gives the timings - for details see man cron and man -S5 crontab.

I use it to keep my /tmp directory in order.

I am sorry to refer you to the command line. I only use GUIs if I have to.

Hope this helps

Basil Fowler

On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 11:47, zentara wrote:

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On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:22:00 +1000 Basil Chupin wrote:

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DB Troll wrote:

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What is the best way to go about cleaning up the hard drive af no longer needed files and directory left over from various downloads etc. My temp directory alone is almost 400mb. TIA

I, too, am interested in knowing the best way (specifically, which files can be deleted) so would appreciate someone who knows the answer responding to the request above -- or at least providing the place to go to to find the answer.

There is a setting in yast2 somewhere for "max days in temp", but honestly I can't find it in yast2.

I delete everything out of my temp directory evertime I shut the machine

down,

...

of course I just have a desktop dialout.

You can put this in halt.local ############################ #!/bin/sh rm -r /tmp/.* rm -r /tmp/* rm -r /var/tmp/.* rm -r /var/tmp/* ############################

#or if you never reboot........you can delete files older than a certain

time

...

############################# #!/usr/bin/perl # For each file in the folder.. while() { # If the file is not a directory, and is older than 45 minutes,

delete it

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if ((!-d $_) && (-M $_ > .03124)) { unlink $_; } } ##############################

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On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:31:06 -0600 Henry Harpending wrote:

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:09:08AM -0500, DB Troll wrote:

**many layers of quotes later someone wrote**

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You can put this in halt.local ############################ #!/bin/sh rm -r /tmp/.* rm -r /tmp/* rm -r /var/tmp/.* rm -r /var/tmp/* ############################

But won't the line

rm -r /tmp/.*

also recursively move to .. and then start deleting files from root level??

It dosn't for me, but I can see why you ask. I don't think * matches . or .., otherwise you would always get infinite looping on . -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

zentara wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:22:00 +1000 Basil Chupin wrote:

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DB Troll wrote:

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What is the best way to go about cleaning up the hard drive af no longer needed files and directory left over from various downloads etc. My temp directory alone is almost 400mb. TIA

I, too, am interested in knowing the best way (specifically, which files can be deleted) so would appreciate someone who knows the answer responding to the request above -- or at least providing the place to go to to find the answer.

There is a setting in yast2 somewhere for "max days in temp", but honestly I can't find it in yast2.

I delete everything out of my temp directory evertime I shut the machine down, of course I just have a desktop dialout.

You can put this in halt.local ############################ #!/bin/sh rm -r /tmp/.* rm -r /tmp/* rm -r /var/tmp/.* rm -r /var/tmp/* ############################

#or if you never reboot........you can delete files older than a certain time ############################# #!/usr/bin/perl # For each file in the folder.. while() { # If the file is not a directory, and is older than 45 minutes, delete it if ((!-d $_) && (-M $_ > .03124)) { unlink $_; } } ##############################

Thank you for this. But aren't there any other files, not in the temp directory, which need deleting? For example, in Windows log files, amongst others, are candidates for regular deletion. BTW, look in Yast2 Control Centre>System>Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files>System>Cron for max_days_in_temp. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso