Re: [Gm2] gm2 uses /var/tmp?

[Fischlin Andreas]

Dear John,

Emptying this folder is AFAIK the duty of the OS, not that of the creator of 
the files stored there, unless permissions assigned at creation time would defy 
that. AFAIK this is the main purpose of storing files at /var/tmp.

I just checked on our Suns (Sparc, Solaris 9) /var/tmp. It contains indeed 
rather surprising old files. But in our case they don't use up much disk space. 
I don't know what philosophy Solaris follows and whether a by user logout or a 
machine restart is needed to really clear out those files or whether there 
should not be a chron job that is supposed do regularly clean that dir out. 
Perhaps someone has better Solaris knowledge and could say what should really 
be going on.

Nevertheless hope having provided some input.

Regards,
Andreas

P.S.: We do not (yet) run gm2 on our Suns.


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On 31/12/2012, at 03:15 , john o goyo wrote:

This may be more of a gcc thing than a gm2 thing but I recently noted that 
building and testing gm2 (on Solaris 10/sparc) dumps a *lot* of files into 
/var/tmp without removing them afterwards.  In fact, over the past year, over 
130000 files were left there.  Can anyone shed any light on this?

john

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