scripts available to clean up /tmp

[Joe Profaizer]

Just looking for some tested and tried scripts to clean up /tmp. Anything will help.

Thanks,

..Joe

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

We use a cron job that simply does

find /tmp -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;

PEte

[Martin Johnson]

We have a cron entry to remove anything over 30 days old:

30 23 * * 5 find /tmp/* -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;

HTH
Marty

[Jean-Luc Oudart]

This thread may help

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc8294b3ef09fd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Jean-Luc

[Pete Randall]

Joe,

There's some discussion of other alternatives in this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x30108f960573d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well, it could be as simple as something like:

find /tmp /var/tmp -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;

However, I do not like this approach because you are fixing the symptoms rather than the problem itself. I absolutely beat into the heads of all developers that this is their responsibility; I consider leaving temp files about as bad as allowing memory leaks to creep into code. I will admit that if someone does a kill -9, there is not a whole lot to be done about that inside the code. I have another baseball bat to deal with that problem.

[Sajid_1]

hello,

this is what I do - find old unused files in the tmp dir and remove them:
# find /tmp \( -atime +14 -a -mtime +30 \) -exec rm -r {} \;

[Sajid_1]

hi,

You can also set this on the crontab and will do it automatically:
# crontab -e
add entry:
07 00 * * * find /tmp \( -atime +14 -a -mtime +30 \) -exec rm -r {} \;

[Joe Profaizer]

All good answers. I guess it's taylored to your respective environment and rules.

...Joe

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Attached a script that runs from cron. Tweak to your needs

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Trying the attach again.