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

[Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>]

Alvar Bray writes:
>     Michael> Would it be a good idea to add a line like
> 
>     Michael> find / -xdev -type f -name core -atime 7 -exec /bin/rm {} \;
> 
>     Michael> to /etc/crontab?
> 
> I dont think so, I have lots of core files around for
> debugging. Perhaps just mailing a list of them to root might be
> better.

I agree that mailing is a good solution. However, it seems most of you
didn't read my proposal carefully enough :-) The -xdev prevents find to go
to /home on normal systems since it is a different partition. I don't think
a developer has to have core files on the root partition, does he?

Michael

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