CWO4 Dave Mann wrote:
> Hey Group, I was snooping around my system just now and looked in
> the /root/tmp folder. There is stuff in there from months ago. When does
> it ever get emptied?

/root is the personal home directory of the root user. So /root/tmp is
that user's private space and should thus not be automatically emptied
by the system. It's up to you to empty it. There's no requirement that
there be a tmp directory in /root, either.

Of course, /tmp is a different story....