Re: /tmp Cleanup

[Gord Hutchinson <gordm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob.  /brms was a directory I meant to ask about.  I don't
understand why they put that under /tmp.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:08 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just remove everything in there during our quarterly downtimes, after
> bringing system down to restricted state.  Long standing practice on 15
> lpars.  No problems yet.
> Only thing is you may want to keep the last save stats for your BRMS save.
> Chicken and egg thing.
>
> Method 1:  Clean out all of /tmp before your restricted state full system
> save.
>
> Method 2:  Clean out /tmp/brms before your resticted state full system
> save.  Clean out all but  /tmp/brms after your restricted state full
> system save.
>
>
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> From:   "Gord Hutchinson" <gordm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   09/07/2018 11:02 AM
> Subject:        /tmp Cleanup
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> I'm looking at implementing a regularly scheduled cleanup of /tmp.
>
> Are there any system type objects or subdirectories in /tmp which should
> NOT be deleted?   Things like /.X11-unix or /.com_ibm_tools_attach.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Gord
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