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| author | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 12:52:17 +0000 |
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| committer | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 12:52:17 +0000 |
| commit | 2c2d3b03307816140f591feb46251497dfdddf8b (patch) | |
| tree | 9db7369d2dfd244b9f1117d6461c8e0bbe732b0b | |
| parent | d2f586c7135e2955b23ebb8469c47ce81746865b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-2c2d3b03307816140f591feb46251497dfdddf8b.zip FreeBSD-src-2c2d3b03307816140f591feb46251497dfdddf8b.tar.gz | |
Resurrect a modified version of the /tmp clearing code from rev 1.119.
Enable this by setting clear_tmp_enable in rc.conf to YES. Beware
there can be serious side-effects of enabling this, so use at you own
risk.
PR: misc/4982, misc/5054
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/rc | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/rc.conf | 3 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #!/bin/sh -# $Id: rc,v 1.137 1997/09/13 21:07:12 brian Exp $ +# $Id: rc,v 1.138 1997/09/21 16:09:47 joerg Exp $ # From: @(#)rc 5.27 (Berkeley) 6/5/91 # System startup script run by init on autoboot @@ -133,6 +133,27 @@ rm -f /var/spool/lock/* rm -rf /var/spool/uucp/.Temp/* (cd /var/run && { cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; }) +# +# Clearing /tmp at boot-time seems to have a long tradition. It doesn't +# help in any way for long-living systems, and it might accidentally +# clobber files you would rather like to have preserved after a crash +# (if not using mfs /tmp anyway). +# +# See also the example of another cleanup policy in /etc/periodic/daily. +# +if [ "X${clear_tmp_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then + echo 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]* && + find -d . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quotas -exec rm -rf -- {} \;) + + # Also remove X lock files since it will prevent you from + # restarting X11 after a system crash. + rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix/* +fi + # enable dumpdev so that savecore can see it # /var/crash should be a directory or a symbolic link # to the crash directory if core dumps are to be saved. diff --git a/etc/rc.conf b/etc/rc.conf index 6c0c8c5..5a9e70a 100644 --- a/etc/rc.conf +++ b/etc/rc.conf @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # # All arguments must be in double or single quotes. # -# $Id: rc.conf,v 1.32 1997/10/31 01:58:53 jdp Exp $ +# $Id: rc.conf,v 1.33 1997/11/07 20:45:36 sef Exp $ ############################################################## ### Important initial Boot-time options ##################### @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ accounting_enable="NO" # Turn on process accounting (or NO). ibcs2_enable="NO" # Ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup (or NO). linux_enable="NO" # Linux emulation loaded at startup (or NO). rand_irqs="NO" # Stir the entropy pool (like "5 11" or NO). +clear_tmp_enable="NO" # Clear /tmp at startup. ############################################################## ### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ## |
