Clearing tmp files

[NoOp]

On 10/12/2007 08:34 AM, sktsee wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:40 +0800, gup502 wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I come from Mandriva.  There is an option to set the system to clear
>> temp files at boot.  If that is not selected, the temp files will
>> quickly add up.  I do not see that option in Ubuntu. Is that required in
>> Ubuntu?
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> 
>> Terence
>> 
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>> 
>> 
> 
> The option is set by the variable "TMPTIME" in /etc/default/rcS. By
> default it's set to 0 so that tmp is cleaned (with some exceptions) on
> each reboot. man rcS for more info.
> 

Sometimes it's a double-edged sword...

You might find this an interesting read:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/15179

Over on the OpenOffice lists there have been many reports of some
student losing an essay because OOo saves to /tmp & then /tmp gets wiped
on startup. Obvious fix is to simply made a directly in home and reset
the path in OOo (Tools|Options|OOo|Path) to the new temp directory. Same
thing happens on Windows - they do all the work, faithfully setting the
recover options to save every 15 min or so, then poof, they lose
power/whatever and expect their work to have been saved... except /tmp
is cleaned on reboot.

Personally, I prefer to have /tmp cleaned on reboot... just be aware of
applications that use /tmp rather than their own /tmp directory.