Re: Who clears /tmp regularly

Hi Jack


Interesting, I know I have had no idea why to use /var - and now that I looked it up, one description is it holds files that change in size. A further search says we shouldn't use it at all, it's outdated.


And I'm pretty sure not many IBM i folks have any more clue than I have had. I dabbled with Debian 25 years ago, barely learned about the structure of the file system. In our shop, /tmp is used somewhat like QTEMP library - yes, we know it doesn't work the same way, and we have some cleanup routines - probably not enough.

As we get to using more open source or things maybe tied to PASE, we probably need to get more acquainted with all this.


Cheers
Vern


On Tue, 27 Feb, 2024 at 3:34 PM, Jack Woehr <jack.woehr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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There are few of those kind of things. .lock files etc. usally are found in /var​ these days.

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Wow. I'd be leery of wiping out a file that was needed by some active job.

Roger Harman
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I've cleared /tmp/ daily since at least 2015.



date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:03:31 +1000

from: Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
subject: Who clears /tmp regularly

I was trying to provide some files to IBM on a machine we don't regularly
look after.

The files were in /tmp

There were over 1 million files in /tmp and it seems you can only enter a
filter after the list has been built.

Just curious if you regularly clear this directory or if you have tools to
regularly clean up old files or some other approach ?

Cheers

Don

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