> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Keller > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:50 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:33:33PM -0500, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > I use to have a line of code in /etc/init.d/syslog (I think > this was > > the > > file) to delete the contents of my /tmp directory on shutdown. > > In /etc/init.d/syslog? That seems like a bad place to put > it, even if it does check (as I assume it must have) the > current runlevel, and only deletes in runlevels [016] or > [06]; if it gets killed too early, you could delete a file > from /tmp that is needed to cleanly kill off a subsequent process. > > /etc/init.d/halt calls /sbin/halt.local, which might be a > good place, except that it's already umounted nonessential > filesystems by then, so if you have /tmp on a different fs > putting it there won't work. (You could mount it from > halt.local, clean it, then umount it, but that seems > extremely kludgy.) You could write your own simple script > and link it in /etc/rc[06].d/ to run after S00killall but > before S01halt or S01reboot. > (It is not clear to me whether enough processes are killed > off that cleaning /tmp is safe here; might be worth testing > in a noncritical environment > first.) > > --keith As I said, I think that was were the code was added. Just not really sure. I remember the files were deleted on shutdown/reboot. Been reading and have seen it may be better to delete the tmp directory files on boot before any services start. What do you think? Thanks, Eddie