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On Sunday 20 January 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > A problem I have is that Firefox is not deleting .pdf files from |
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> > /tmp after I have viewed & saved them elsewhere (using Kpdf). |
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> > There seems to be no place in Firefox or Kpdf settings to change |
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> > this. Does anyone have a useful suggestion for automatically |
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> > deleting them ? |
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> Since /tmp has been talked about on -dev, reboot will do it. |
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Only if /tmp is a tmpfs. |
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On a machine used as a desktop, this is a good idea as they are rebooted |
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often and the FHS states that the contents of /tmp should not be relied |
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on to survive a reboot. |
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On a server style machine that is not rebooted often, tmpwatch running |
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in a cron does a good job of this. |
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alan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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