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

[Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> writes:
>>>>> ""alvar" == Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk> 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?

    alvar> I dont think so, I have lots of core files around for
    alvar> debugging. Perhaps just mailing a list of them to root might be
    alvar> better.

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

This is quite true however most daemons run from the root partition so
thats where they will barf cores when they die. 

Also, in my own case, I have a proper multipartitoned setup to do real
Meiko type work and an 'all in one partiton' setup for hacking around
without breaking the world.

alvar

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