Add a few hints about the cleaning policy of /tmp, including an example

(commented out) for how to purge it regularly.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/daily b/etc/daily
index 423063e..25cc17e 100644
--- a/etc/daily
+++ b/etc/daily
@@ -30,6 +30,30 @@ cd /tmp
 #	   -o -name '*.CKP' -o -name '.emacs_[0-9]*' \) \
 #		-a -atime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;
 #
+#
+# The same security hole.  Purge the temp directories from unused stuff.
+# Note that we must not accidentally clean the X11 lock files.
+#
+# Use at your own risk, but for a long-living system, this might come
+# more useful than the boot-time cleaning of /tmp.  If /var/tmp and
+# /tmp are symlinked together, only one of the below will actually
+# run.
+#
+# if [ -d /tmp ]; then
+# 	cd /tmp && {
+# 	find . -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 ! -name '.X*-lock' -exec rm -f -- {} \;
+# 	find -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \
+# 	    >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+# fi
+#
+# if [ -d /var/tmp ]; then
+# 	cd /var/tmp && {
+# 	find . ! -name . -atime +7 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;
+# 	find -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \
+# 	    >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+# fi
+#
+#
 
 # remove system	messages older than 21 days
 msgs -c