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):
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| 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
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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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