[1755] in athena10
Re: tmp-cleaner for Linerva
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 17 22:44:59 2009
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Cc: linerva@mit.edu
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The tmp-cleaner I wrote in July is just a repackaging of the Athena 9
tmp cleaner, which I wrote in 2006.
I believe it was recommended that I look at tmpreaper but didn't
evaluate it because of time pressure.
Preserving logged-in users' files is actually intended for dialup-type
machines. Screen state files, ssh xhost cookies, and other droppings
like that could get reaped which led to bug reports.
