[ale] cleaning out /tmp

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 22:07:08 EDT 2007


Debian cleans /tmp at boot time. Evidently, Ubuntu decided to break
this sane behavior. Here's something that might work for you --
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_clean_.2Ftmp.2F_folder_contents_on_shutdown
.

On 9/2/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> I just noticed, as I was trying to figure out my email issue, that there were
> lots of old files in /tmp.
> yet I know I've rebooted twice today.
> Is there a good way to clean out /tmp??
> cronjob ?
> I basically went to single user mode, and did:
> cd /tmp
> rm -r *
> reboot
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
> Ubuntu User number is # 12459

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