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[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Nov 29 20:29:20 GMT 2006

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Quoting Walter Faleiro (curtorkar at gmail.com):

> Has anyone noticed the behaviour that /tmp is not cleared on reboots?

1.  Your [unnamed] distro sucks.  ;->
2.  On Debian and similar, edit this section in /etc/default/rcS, to suit:

# Time files in /tmp are kept in days.
TMPTIME=7

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