Cleanup of /tmp

[Augustine Cano]

> bilbo at bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon) writes:
>> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>> > michael at stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) writes:
>> >
>> >I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge.
>> >
>> It's /etc/.cleanup.  The offending line is rm -rf /tmp/*.  I have commented
>> it and my files no longer disappear.
>
>When does this get called?  I like to have /tmp cleaned up when I reboot,
>but not at some arbitrary interval.

It is definitely called on reboot.  This is the only place where I noticed it.
Back in the seagate drive days, I used to have (at least) a crash every few
days and regularly lost all files in /tmp.  If anybody knows of another
script or program that cleans up /tmp, please let us all know.


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