tmp cleaning

[hpuxrox]

anyone have a down-n-dirty cron script to autoclean /tmp?

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Why down-n-dirty when you have /sbin/init.d/clean_tmps?

Or you can always do somthing like

find /tmp -type f -mtime +7|xargs rm -fr
Will remove files older than 7 days.

Anil

[Helen French]

This can be included in your crontab file:

#Find,remove and report old unused files in /tmp

find /tmp \( -atime +14 -a -mtime +30 \) -exec ls -al {} \; -exec rm -r {} \; >> $temp

mailx -s "Reports of deleted files" mymailaddress@com.com < $temp

[Shannon Petry]

There used to be a thread with lots of good scripts in it. It's not sticky, so maybe someone remembers the title and can post it.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

20 00 * * 1 /usr/bin/find /tmp -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; >>/dev/null 2>&1

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Shannon Petry]

I know you gave a bunny, so do not award points.

I found the link to the script thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=123030

Be carefull what you remove in /tmp too, as it can cause X to crash if running, and other socket based applications with the socket in /tmp to die mid-run.

Regards,
Shannon