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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:40:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: misc/5054: /tmp not nuked on reboot
Message-ID:  <199711152040.MAA22435@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/5054; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: evanc@synapse.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/5054: /tmp not nuked on reboot
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 14:35:35 -0600 (CST)

 On 15 Nov 1997 evanc@synapse.net wrote:
 
 # 
 # >Fix:
 # 	
 # 	Here's what BSDI uses.  Try to change a few words :-)
 # 
 # echo clearing /tmp
 # 
 # # prune quickly with one rm, then use find to clean up /tmp/[lq]*
 # # (not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt there...)
 # (cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* &&
 #     find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quotas \
 #         ! -name quota.user ! -name quota.group -exec rm -rf -- {} \;)
 # 
 
 Try the attached patch on a -current system.  This will get what
 you want.  As far as a switch in rc.conf, you might drop pst@FreeBSD.org
 a line since the new periodic crontab changes are his.
 
 Steve
 
 Index: 110.clean-tmps
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /tmp/src/cvs/src/etc/periodic/daily/110-clean-tmps,v
 retrieving revision 1.3
 diff -u -r 1.3 110.clean-tmps
 --- 110.clean-tmps	1997/09/11 15:21:30	1.3
 +++ 110.clean-tmps	1997/11/15 20:34:26
 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  # run.
  #
 
 -exit 0		# do not run by default
 +#exit 0		# do not run by default
 
  if [ -d /tmp ]; then
      cd /tmp && {
 
 



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