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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:08:46 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   conf/43146: rc.conf: clear_tmp_enable=YES doesn't clear /tmp/.[a-zA-Z]* files
Message-ID:  <200209210008.g8L08ku3022787@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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>Number:         43146
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       rc.conf: clear_tmp_enable=YES doesn't clear /tmp/.[a-zA-Z]* files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 20 17:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jonathan Chen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
chen.org.nz
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD grimoire.chen.org.nz 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Sep 17 19:47:14 NZST 2002 root@grimoire.chen.org.nz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRIMOIRE i386
>Description:
Setting clear_tmp_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf doesn't remove files
named ".[a-zA-Z]" in /tmp. Quite a few ports and apps (and some users)
tend to leave files in /tmp starting with a '.'.
>How-To-Repeat:
	# touch /tmp/.file
	# shutdown -r now
>Fix:
Patch for /etc/rc:

--- rc.old	Sat Sep 21 12:01:46 2002
+++ rc	Sat Sep 21 12:02:40 2002
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
 	echo -n '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]* &&
+	(cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* .[a-zA-Z]* &&
 		find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quota.user \
 		! -name quota.group -exec rm -rf -- {} \;)
 	echo '.'
>Release-Note:
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