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Re: Clean up /tmp on system reboot [was: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0]


On 4/9/2015 3:22 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:

Or use cron...

How can cron help? You don't want to delete these files while some
process may be
using them (note: I didn't say while the process has the file open - it
may not be
open to be valuable). You really need this clean-up done when the
machine boots up
because you know at that point, all the processes that were using those
files are
gone.



Somebody hasn't read man 5 crontab, which states:

These special  time  specification  "nicknames"  are  supported,  which
replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the '@'
       character:
       @reboot    :    Run once, at startup.
       @yearly    :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
       @annually  :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
       @monthly   :    Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *".
       @weekly    :    Run once a week, ie.  "0 0 * * 0".
       @daily     :    Run once a day, ie.   "0 0 * * *".
       @hourly    :    Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".

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Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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