[CentOS] /tmp directory

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe:
>> From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>
>>
>>> Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the
>>> machine I needed
>>> it at the time.
>>
>> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared.
>
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> cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
> flags=-umc
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix \
> 	-x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix \
> 	-X '/tmp/hsperfdata_*' 240 /tmp
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" 720 /var/tmp
> for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
>      if [ -d "$d" ]; then
> 	/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -f 720 "$d"
>      fi
> done
>
>
>
> 720 = 30 days

what? you mean this dir called /var/tmp is actually for temporary 
stuff?? man, this system is seriously screwed up...