[16339] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.9: /usr/tmp not cleaned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Sep 20 19:46:38 1998
To: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:40:50 EDT."
<199809202340.TAA00938@m66-080-19.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:46:31 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> There are emacs autosave files dating back to Jul 26.
Interesting.
At least in theory, we clean up files in /var/tmp which haven't been
accessed in the past two days. Starting emacs doesn't seem to update
the access times of autosave files, but maybe something else users
commonly run is reading all files in /var/tmp, or something dumb like
that?
The ls -lu output of /var/tmp would be a useful piece of information;
it would help tell whether clean_tmp_areas is functioning properly.
