RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ550 - /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

["Leigh Jamgochian" <leigh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a Raq550 and it has the next line as
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp

Before i ran this I checked my /tmp dir and it had been cleaned out..
although there was some old stuff.

I think that the grace period may be a bit high. I think 30 days. for the
/var/tmp dir and that is why it appeared to not be deleing... the 240 is
about 10 days and 720 is about 1 month.

Leigh
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Gibbs
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] RAQ550 - /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
>
>
> Just thought I'd send this minor fix to the list.  I noticed my
> /tmp dir was
> not being cleaned up.  I took a look at /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch, line #1:
>
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
>
> If you run that line with -v -v switches for verbose, you will see the
> following output:
>
> grace period is 864000
> initial directory /tmp is a symlink -- skipping
>
> Well no wonder nothing was being cleaned - it was skipping /tmp,
> it appears
> that /tmp is linked to /home/tmp so I modified the line to read /home/tmp
> instead of /tmp and things are being cleaned up now.
>
> Hope this helps someone else,
> Bill
>
>
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