Michael C. Toren on Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:51:22 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Routine maintenance


> You might run a daily cron job consisting of something like the
> following:
> 
>   find /tmp /var/tmp -atime 7 -type f -print0 |xargs -0 rm

You'll probably want to use "+6", rather than "7", to find any files
which haven't been accessed in seven or more days, rather than exactly
seven days ago.

> (If you do this, *don't* mount any filesystems on /tmp!  It never

Or, you can use find(1)'s -xdev command line option, which will
prevent it from descending directories on other file systems.

-mct