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12/21 does /csua/tmp gets cleaned whenever soda reboots? Or via a cron job? How do we get some of these huge (and quite old) files off the system? \_ It gets cleared when it fills and someone gets bored enough to mail all the people who've forgotten they left their crap there. But, since there's plenty of space there now, why do you care? \_ Some people just are curious. And just because there's plenty of space now doesn't mean there always will be. \_ an issue that will be delt with when it is the case \_ Sloppy sysadmining due to "lots of space" is no excuse. A cron job that wipes files older than X days is trivial. I care because this raises questions about how soda is admin'd in other ways. I don't keep anything important here but soda itself is. \_ you are a moron. --aaron \_ actually a cron job that wipes files older than X days that isn't a massive security hole is far from trivial -tom \_ are you talking about linking files like /etc/passwd into some link in /tmp? \_ chown nobody:nobody /csua/tmp and run cron job as nobody. \_ there are subdirectories. chowning them all is not really an option (and has its own security problems). -tom \_ Uh huh. Because I'm not sloppy? No one would sign something that stupid. You can't be aaron. \_ This just proves it even more --pld \_ You're missing the point of /csua/tmp - stuff is supposed to stay there longer than a couple of days, as long as everyone plays nicely. \_ Having a cron job to wipe files older than X days is just going to make the /csua/tmp diskhosers set up cron jobs to touch their files every X-1 days. It's a stupid idea. -ERic \_ tom can easily figure out how to do it perfectly. \_ tom already pointed out that it is difficult to do properly. get a clue. |
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