[Wylug-discuss] maintenance

[Jack Kelly]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 19 Aug 2007, Andrew J Cole wrote:
>>>                                           Also is there any routine
>>> maintenance I should be doing in Linux specifically Ubuntu?
>> The occasional backup of impartant data perhaps?
>>
> I'd also recommend cleaning out the /tmp directory from time to time.  I do it 
> with a weekly cron.
> 
>         tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp
> 
> <quote>
> You may not want the --verbose, and check the manpage for the --mtime
> option, but basically this deletes all files in /tmp that have not been
> modified for 168 hours or more.
> </quote>

I just have /tmp mounted on a tmpfs. If you're interested, here's my 
fstab line:

tmp                     /tmp            tmpfs           mode=1777 
                 0 0

-- Jack