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Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond



On Friday 17 February 2006 08:01, Josep Serrano wrote:
> > On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote:
> >> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ?
> >
> > Yup.  The tmpreaper package is great for that.
>
> Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the
> bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional
> package if you already have the stuff to the the job?
>
> Maybe I am wrong and it is a bad idea using bootclean.sh in crond ?

Generally speaking, unless you know for sure, you don't want to assume 
something is cron-safe.

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