topic Re: tmp in Operating System - Linux

tmp

Chakravarthi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:39:33 GMT

hi,

i'm using linux machine, in this machine every time system boots it doesnt cleanup /tmp area, but this happens in solaris. is there any tunable parameter to enable this.
i feel one solution is put
rm -rf /tmp/* in the startup scripts

is there any other better way to clean up /tmp partition every time system boots???

regards
chakri

Re: tmp

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:38:25 GMT

of cours ethere is:
see man tmpwatch

Re: tmp

Sivakumar TS — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:29:02 GMT

You can check the above command, as well one input for you :

In solaris /tmp is infact mounted on swap filesystem.

But in linux u have a separate /tmp filesystem itself.

With Regards,

Siva.

Re: tmp

Chakravarthi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:37:05 GMT

hi,

can you let me know how do use tmpwatch command, basically i want to delete all the files which are not accessed from last one week..

thanks
chakri

Re: tmp

Chakravarthi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:13:43 GMT

is there a way to cleanup /tmp partition every time machine comes up, any other option other than tmpwatch??

Re: tmp

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:21:59 GMT

You can add the rm -fr /tmp/* to the /etc/rc.local file. The commands here are executed at startup.

See man tmpwatch for instructions about how to use it, you need to modify the file located in /etc/cron.daily.

Re: tmp

Bill Thorsteinson — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:15:29 GMT

You can mount tmp from swap using the tmpfs
drive. This generally provides a very fast
/tmp partition. Increase swap appropriately
if needed. Size of the tmpfs is tuneable.

tmpfs based /tmp directories are always
cleared on reboot.

Re: tmp

Chakravarthi — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:07:04 GMT

thanks for the responses