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Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc



On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:19:47AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
[....]
> Subdirectories of /var/run are left alone, possibly to avoid problems
> with buggy packages that forget to recreate them in their init script.
> I'm not sure that this is TRT because having /var/run on a tmpfs is
> supposed to be supported, but that's how things currently are.

OK. Not pretty, but reasonable

> > In addition, /tmp is only cleaned when I do it manually.
> 
> What is the value of TMPTIME in /etc/default/rcS ?

I left it default:
TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
UTC=yes
VERBOSE=no
FSCKFIX=no
RAMRUN=no
RAMLOCK=no


Thank you for your reply,

Frits


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