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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:02:00 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/daily...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.02.9809211900180.5666-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980921020216.28022B-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>

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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Lanny Baron wrote:

[Next time, please Cc: the list as well]

> 	Hello Jonathan,
> 
> 	Thanks again for your reply. I have looked just after doing
> ./daily to see what happens. It does not clean out /tmp completely for some
> reason. Here is the part of /etc/daily I have uncommented:
> 
> f [ -d /usr/tmp ]; then
>         cd /usr/tmp && {
>         find . -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 ! -name '.X*-lock' -exec rm -f
> --$
>         find -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \
>             >/dev/null 2>&1; }
> fi

Note that the atime option has been used with find(1). This means that
if you even *look* at the file in the last 3 days, it will not delete
it.

Jonathan Chen
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