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Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory



As a fairly recent arrival to Debian, I have just viewed the current
content of my /tmp directory.  And found the following (snipped):

,----
| total 256
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk 44215 Jan 22  2003 craig01_small.jpg
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk  1301 Jan 22  2003 craig02_small.jpg
| 
| SNIP
| 
| drwxr-xr-x  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 17 07:57 hsperfdata_felixk
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 12 08:35 kde-felixk
| drwx------  2 root   root    4096 Sep 15 17:02 kde-root
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 16 19:46 keyring-I5kAqy
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 17 15:37 ksocket-felixk
| drwx------  2 root   root    4096 Sep 15 17:06 ksocket-root
| srwxr-xr-x  1 felixk felixk     0 Sep 16 19:46 mapping-felixk
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 12 07:57 mc-felixk
| drwx------  2 root   root    4096 Sep 12 17:00 mc-root
| drwx------  3 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 12 08:36 mcop-felixk
| 
| SNIP
| 
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk  2073 Jan 22  2003 millar03_small.jpg
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk  1408 Jan 22  2003 millar04_small.jpg
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk  1361 Jan 22  2003 millar05_small.jpg
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 17 15:41 orbit-felixk
| drwx------  2 root   root    4096 Sep 17 05:54 orbit-root
| 
| SNIP
| 
| -rw-------  1 felixk felixk  4776 Sep 12 08:35 pan_edit_ANNMKc.01.bk
| -rw-------  1 felixk felixk  1168 Sep 13 17:30 pan_edit_BRCYUX.01.bk
| -rw-r--r--  1 felixk felixk  1480 Jan 22  2003 trystanupstill_small.jpg
| 
| SNIP
| 
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 17 15:30 v962503
| drwx------  2 felixk felixk  4096 Sep 17 15:34 v962807o
`----

I suspect that there is a missing cron routine and would welcome
the needed pointers in order to persuade the "tmp" directory to live
up to its name.

Felix Karpfen
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Felix Karpfen
Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)




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