The program 'cron' runs programs at regular times.  For intermittently 
operated systems i.e. those not running 24/7, the program 'anacron' serves 
the same purpose.  To the best of my knowledge both SuSE and RedHat have 
program that clears files older than a fixed time from the /tmp directory.

In my SuSE 8.0 the program is 'suse.de-clean-tmp'.  

Make certain that cron/anacron is running as a daemon and that the clean-up 
program is in '/etc/cron.daily' directory and, in the case of SuSE 8.0 the  
parameters are correctly set in /etc/sysconfig/cron

Hope this helps

Basil Fowler




On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 18:40, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:51, hasanen wrote:
> > try to clean /tmp directory before loging in to KDE
> 
> Thank you Hasanen!  I removed all the files in the /tmp
> directory and now I can launch Konqueror just fine.
> 
> One more question if you don't mind.  Should I remove
> everything from this directory once in a while?
> I see there are subdirectories in the /tmp directory.
> What are they for?  Are the temporary Internet files/directories?
> 
> Here is what I did and you will see the remaining directories below:
> 
> andy@debian:/tmp$ ls -al
> total 44
> drwxrwxrwt    9 root     root         4096 Oct 16 07:15 .
> drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Oct  8 18:20 ..
> drwxrwxrwt    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 07:14 .ICE-unix
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root           11 Oct 16 07:14 .X0-lock
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 07:14 .X11-unix
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .fam0CUrJ5
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:15 .fam4eKmLl
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .famLoJDM4
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .famP5XVWJ
> srwx------    1 root     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .fam_socket
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 06:58 .font-unix
> -rw-------    1 andy     andy          231 Oct 16 07:14 dcopk1ZMDC
> drwx------    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 10:32 kde-andy
> drwx------    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 10:33 ksocket-andy
> drwx------    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 06:59 mcop-andy
> drwx------    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 07:14 ssh-XXAiGsOs
> 
> andy@debian:~$ rm -r /tmp/*
> andy@debian:~$ ls /tmp
> andy@debian:~$ ls -al /tmp
> total 24
> drwxrwxrwt    5 root     root         4096 Oct 16 10:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Oct  8 18:20 ..
> drwxrwxrwt    2 andy     andy         4096 Oct 16 07:14 .ICE-unix
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root           11 Oct 16 07:14 .X0-lock
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 07:14 .X11-unix
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .fam0CUrJ5
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:15 .fam4eKmLl
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .famLoJDM4
> srw-------    1 andy     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .famP5XVWJ
> srwx------    1 root     root            0 Oct 16 07:14 .fam_socket
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 06:58 .font-unix
> andy@debian:~$
> 
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