Ed Greshko wrote:
> But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in
directories, eg
> 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37
> and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories,
> even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories,
> which mine seem to be.
>
I think the problem there is the flags used by the cron are -umc and the
man page has a "warning" about this when it comes to -u
When run with -m it does more of what I think you'd want it to do....
That is want I found out when I just ran it with only -m.
Thanks very much.
I'll try that.
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