Re: cleaning up /var/tmp

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:31:49 PST Jim Pick (jim@jimpick.com) wrote:

> > What process (if any) cleans up /var/tmp, or is that job up to the user?
> 
> It happens in /etc/init.d/boot.
> 
> Of course, that doesn't help you if you only reboot once every six months
> or so...   :-)

Nope, /var/tmp is never cleaned.
/tmp, /var/run and /var/lock are cleaned upon reboot.

There's commented code in the /etc/cron.something-ly to clean /tmp regularly, but it's not activated because of the find+xargs security bug (where a carefully crafted enough filename can cause programs to be executed by the UID running find+xargs).

Phil.