Patch cleanup in the /tmp directory

[Joe Profaizer]

After downloading and running swinstall on patches in the /tmp directory, is it OK to remove the PH**_*****, the PH**_*****.sh and the PH**_*****.text from the /tmp directory, since everything else has been saved to /var/adm/sw/save?
I've used the cleanup -c1, but still have downloaded patches in the /tmp directory I'd like to get rid of, if possible without consequences.

Thanks,

..Joe

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Joe,

You bet, blow 'em away.

By convention (and there are of course exceptions) anything in /tmp,/var/tmp, and /usr/tmp may safely be removed.

Regards, Clay

[James R. Ferguson]

Joe:

Yes, you can remove patch text and depot files from the /tmp directory. In fact, you can option your startup sequence to clean up all files in /tmp.

This is controlled in: '/etc/rc.config.d/clean_tmps'

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peggy Fong]

Hi
I agree with the others as well but I also swcopy my patches or any software into a depot so that I can reinstall it if necessary or install it on another server - then blow it away from /tmp

Peggy