[K12OSN] /tmp

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Michael Blinn wrote:
> What is the convention for cleaning out /tmp in v6?  It's slowly
> filling up, and I can see some very old files in there. Is there a
> /tmp manager, or a current method for 'rm -rf /tmp/*' on reboot, or ....?
> Thanks,
>  Michael 

I generally just

  rm -rf /tmp/*

as root every so often.  The whole point of /tmp is to hold temporary
files while a user is logged on, especially with "heavy" desktops like
GNOME and KDE.  When the user is no longer logged on, that user's files
in /tmp are no longer needed.

--TP