On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:26:21 -0400 Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com> wrote:

My machine is accumulating junk in /tmp /var/tmp I found /etc/cron.daily/suse.de-clean-tmp which is designed to handle this.

The halt.local file can be useful in some desktop situations for clearing out directories. Just put a script in halt.local and it will clear everything out if you shutdown the machine. Machine reboot on a desktop, is a very good "end of session" marker. Usually you want to keep those temp files until your current session is done. Here are a couple of scripts I use: ############################################################ #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; #I already had something similar. It actually deletes files older than 45 #minutes. Just change .03124 to a "3" for 3 days. # For each file in the folder.. while(</temp/*>) { # If the file is not a directory, and is older than 45 minutes, delete it if ((!-d $_) && (-M $_ > .03124)) { unlink $_; } } ############################################################### This one is for wiping out the histories, good if you are entering passwords on the commandline alot, and don't want them saved in the histories. ######################################################### #!/bin/sh cd /root/.mc cat /dev/null > history cd /root cat /dev/null > .bash_history cd /home/zentara/.mc cat /dev/null > history cd /home/zentara cat /dev/null > .bash_history ########################################################### -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation