General :: Autodeletion - Cleans Stuff Up In /tmp Automatically ?
Aug 16, 2010
I have a centos 5.2 instance on Amazon thats been running without a restart for nearly 500 days.
Theres only one user - that's me - I'm root.
I put in the /tmp folder a couple of subfolders.
Didn't use the folders for about 6 months for anything and hardly touched the machine. When a webservice tried to generate a file in the subfolder under /tmp recently it failed. The folder was missing - so was another.
Nobody deleted the folders.
Is there something which cleans stuff up in /tmp automatically?
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Jul 19, 2011
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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x624aa2e0
[code]...
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Code:
#!/bin/bash
# ~/bin/cleantmp
# Script to delete contents of /tmp folder, giving the option to delete
[Code]....
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