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/