[LBo] Cron job for temp folder

Stefan Waidele St.Waidele at LinuxBasics.org
Mon Nov 26 21:18:22 CET 2007


Merv Curley schrieb:
> [...]
> Files are easy to delete, or move to Trash til you are sure that you 
> don't need them any more.

"Trash" does not delete. It just moves them around.

The "being sure you don't need them anymore" is the tricky part.
That is why well written apps/scrips should clean after themselves and
the rest is being wiped upon reboot, when by definition there are no
needed files in /tmp

Stefan

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