I see a bunch of files of the type virtuoso_hX2085.ini in my /tmp directory growing in numbers. Looks as they are created by virtuoso-opensource. So, not knowing what it is I decided to try erasing it and found that it is part of KDE.
So, what actually uses virtuoso-opensource? And, shouldn't it be nice enough to clean up its trash?
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:45:00 Ed Greshko wrote:
I see a bunch of files of the type virtuoso_hX2085.ini in my /tmp directory growing in numbers. Looks as they are created by virtuoso-opensource. So, not knowing what it is I decided to try erasing it and found that it is part of KDE.
So, what actually uses virtuoso-opensource? And, shouldn't it be nice enough to clean up its trash?
You may wish to check out this thread:
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg09052.html
However, I didn't have a problem with the files in /tmp... ;-)
HTH, :-) Marko
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
However, I didn't have a problem with the files in /tmp... ;-)
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 11:46:01 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
However, I didn't have a problem with the files in /tmp... ;-)
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On a weekly basis I run
tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough to have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
Anne
On 06/22/2011 07:24 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 11:46:01 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
However, I didn't have a problem with the files in /tmp... ;-)
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On a weekly basis I run
tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough to have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
Yes, it seems I'll have to resort to that as well...
I recall that Solaris used to have a setting that would clear /tmp at boot. But, this option doesn't exist in Linux. The only other alternative would be to turn /tmp into a tmpfs file system.
I suppose this is one way to deal with lazy programmers. :-) :-)
Anne Wilson wrote:
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On a weekly basis I run
tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough to have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
Thanks for the response.
I see I do actually have tmpwatch in /etc/cron.daily , which removes /tmp files, with some exceptions, after 10 days. But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37 and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories, even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories, which mine seem to be.
On 06/22/2011 07:44 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On a weekly basis I run
tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough to have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
Thanks for the response.
I see I do actually have tmpwatch in /etc/cron.daily , which removes /tmp files, with some exceptions, after 10 days. But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37 and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories, even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories, which mine seem to be.
I think the problem there is the flags used by the cron are -umc and the man page has a "warning" about this when it comes to -u
When run with -m it does more of what I think you'd want it to do.... That is want I found out when I just ran it with only -m.
Ed
Ed Greshko wrote:
But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37 and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories, even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories, which mine seem to be.
I think the problem there is the flags used by the cron are -umc and the man page has a "warning" about this when it comes to -u
When run with -m it does more of what I think you'd want it to do.... That is want I found out when I just ran it with only -m.
Thanks very much. I'll try that.
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 12:44:45 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
Slightly OT, but I find I have lots of files in /tmp of whose purpose I know nothing - including many virtuosi-*.ini .
Some of these on my Fedora-15 system date back to May, eg akonadi-tim* .
I thought /tmp got emptied at regular intervals? Or does one have to specify this somewhere?
On a weekly basis I run
tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
It's amazing how much cruft it takes out weekly (it's intelligent enough to have an age limit on the files it removes). You can equally run a cron job to clean a user ~/tmp if you have one.
Thanks for the response.
I see I do actually have tmpwatch in /etc/cron.daily , which removes /tmp files, with some exceptions, after 10 days. But now I see that the things remaining in /tmp are in directories, eg 4 drwx------. 2 tim tim 4096 Jun 4 01:31 virtual-tim.2Van37 and as far as I can see tmpwatch does not remove directories, even though "man tmpwatch" says it removes empty directories, which mine seem to be.
I do see a few lines like
removing directory /tmp/.com.google.chrome.NG8UsT if empty
so I'm not sure exactly what the criteria are.
Anne
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