[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

[Walter Faleiro]

The rc.sysinit has this
# Do we need (w|u)tmpx files? We don't set them up, but the sysadmin
might...
[ -f /var/run/utmpx -o -f /var/log/wtmpx ] && _NEED_XFILES=1
# Clean up utmp/wtmp
> /var/run/utmp
touch /var/log/wtmp
chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
  > /var/run/utmpx
  touch /var/log/wtmpx
  chgrp utmp /var/run/utmpx /var/log/wtmpx
  chmod 0664 /var/run/utmpx /var/log/wtmpx
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock
rm -rf /tmp/.X*-unix
rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix
rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*

So I understand an extra line shoud go rm -rf /tmp/*

Not sure why they left it out.

--W


https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=49

On 11/30/06, Walter Faleiro <curtorkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Rick,
> My distro is
> cat /etc/issue
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 1)
> Kernel \r on an \m
>
>
>
> I got that for Debian on googling, but am trying to fix it for Redhat
> systems. I understand tmpwatch is supposed to clear things up.
> I can have a script like find /tmp -type f -mtime +7 exec { rm -rf } \;
> and have files that are older than 7 days removed.
>
> My reason for posting this was that by default Redhat clears /tmp on
> reboot.
> So just want to debug the issue from then
>
> --W
>
> On 11/30/06, Rick Moen < rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Walter Faleiro (curtorkar at gmail.com):
> >
> > > Has anyone noticed the behaviour that /tmp is not cleared on reboots?
> >
> > 1.  Your [unnamed] distro sucks.  ;->
> > 2.  On Debian and similar, edit this section in /etc/default/rcS, to
> > suit:
> >
> > # Time files in /tmp are kept in days.
> > TMPTIME=7
> >
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