Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc
On 14 February 2009 07:18:46 vwf wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:12:26PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2009-02-13 17:32 +0100, vwf wrote:
> > > I found a problem. I installed Lenny last May on a new PC. Since a few
> > > weeks I found that /tmp and /var/run are not cleaned during boot. The
> > > oldest entry in /var/run is 1985-01-01. I checked everything, but all
> > > looks good.
> >
> > Are you sure that these entries are not coming from scripts that had
> > been run during the _new_ boot? Note that the sudo initscript sets the
> > timestamp of /var/run/sudo to 1985-01-01 to invalidate any tickets.
>
> That solves the sudo mystery, but others remain. One is /var/run/exim4/,
> which is not installed, /var/run/apache2/, /var/run/hplip/,
> /var/run/identd/, /var/run/sshd/, and others, which are empty. I would
> expect them to be gone. In addition, /tmp is only cleaned when I do it
> manually.
>
> Frits
I also have a lot of empty folders in /var/run/ with date that seems to be
when I first installed the debian system. Actually, all empty folders have
dates from the first install. Things like alsa, sshd, cups and so on.
Thierry
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