[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

[Walter Faleiro]

Thanks Rick,
My distro is
cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 1)
Kernel \r on an \m



I got that for Debian on googling, but am trying to fix it for Redhat
systems. I understand tmpwatch is supposed to clear things up.
I can have a script like find /tmp -type f -mtime +7 exec { rm -rf } \;
and have files that are older than 7 days removed.

My reason for posting this was that by default Redhat clears /tmp on reboot.
So just want to debug the issue from then

--W

On 11/30/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> 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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