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Re: Athena 9.2.7: ssh leaving cruft in /tmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 24 18:17:29 2003
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:17:25 -0400
Message-Id: <200306242217.h5OMHPNU017707@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <tx13chzffrb.fsf@mit.edu>
> Found it, in /usr/athena/lib/init/mksessiondir. I don't see any
> code to delete it once the session is finished, though, except the
> clean_tmp_areas script, which AFAICT isn't going to distinguish
> between active and completed sessions....
No, it won't. But logging out doesn't necessarily imply that those
directories are no longer useful either, since you could leave behind
background processes which use ORBit or GConf.
(Anything accessed in the past day won't be clobbered by the /tmp
cleaner, which helps to distinguish active from completed sessions,
though it's by no means perfect.)
