In comp.os.linux.misc, on Fri 24 March 2006 16:01, Jeremiah DeWitt
Weiner <jdw@panix.com> wrote:

> CWO4 Dave Mann <misterfixit@loveable.com> 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?
>
> I never heard of a /root/tmp directory (not "folder"), although
> there's nothing impossible about it. /tmp is standard; /root/tmp is
> not. There are about three ways/times in which temp directories get
> emptied, other than doing it manually:
> 1. Never.
> 2. At reboot.
> 3. When something like 'tmpreaper' gets run on a schedule.
>
> Exactly which of these might apply depends on your distribution.
> Personally, I think 'at reboot' is the best way to do it, but
> reasonable people can and do disagree.
>
But some people want to empty /tmp more than every three years
--
Robert HULL

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