Re: Bug#3114: cron.daily/standard script

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

Michael Meskes:
> Would it be a good idea to add a line like
> 
> find / -xdev -type f -name core -atime 7 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
> 
> to /etc/crontab?

I don't think so.  There are a lot of people who use Debian to develop
programs, and who don't want their core files disappearing.

Even non-developers may want to know that there is a program on the system
that core dumps.  Therefore, producing a list (outside of /home, perhaps)
would be a better idea, IMHO.