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Re: [LUG] Broken X !!



On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:27:45PM +0100, paul wrote:

/tmp as programs may have temp files there. Let the os clear it for you
when you reboot.

I was under the impression that you should never have to reboot linux or not
very often anyway.. 

True enough. There are some unix boxes I've installed which have been
up for years.

If this was a mission critical device 

Then it's probably not a PC. It's more likely to be a redundant array
of high quality Unix boxes with some clustering tech thrown in. I can
do you some good HA kit with linux PCs though, if you fancy
it. Depends how critical it is, or more specifically, how much money
you lose if it's down.

it seems too much like windows to have to reboot in order to clear
temp files.  any thoughts,

Yeah, use a crontab. Kill anything that's more than n days
old. Personally, I've never had a problem with temp files, since they
don't add up to much.

Steve

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