From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 12:16:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-24-169-195-157.rochester.rr.com [24.169.195.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0090237B402 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g28KGVe51762 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:16:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 27in.tv (roc-24-169-195-157.rochester.rr.com [24.169.195.157]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g28KGTA51753 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:16:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 216.153.201.163 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www1.27in.tv with HTTP; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:16:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3423.216.153.201.163.1015618589.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:16:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal From: "C J Michaels" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some time in the recent past D J Hawkey Jr scribbled: > On Mar 03, at 08:17 PM, David Malone wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: >> > 100.clean-disks has no allowance for excluding paths; I would not >> > want it to clean core dumps or a.out within $(HOME) directories, for >> > instance. >> >> It would be relatively easy to add a variable which gave directories >> to skip... >> >> > [SNIP] >> > >> > It would have bothered me greatly to wake up next week and find >> > these listed subdirectories, or any others, missing. >> >> It will only delete these directories if they are empty and they >> haven't been modified in $daily_clean_tmps_days. (You can't check if >> they have been accesses as the previous find will have accessed them.) >> I'm not sure how much concelation that is ;-) >> >> ...I'm sure it would be accepted as a patch if you submitted it. Probably too little too late, but I've fallen behing on the mailing lists. IMHO, if a program is dependant on a directory existing in _/tmp_ it should be intelligent enough to create the dir if it does not exist. /tmp is the last place anyone should expect to be consistent. Mind you, I do believe an exclusion list would be quite helpful. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35545 > >> David. > > Dave > > -- > ______________________ ______________________ > \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ > \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ > http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message