Re: [SLE] /tmp cleaning

jfweber_at_bellsouth.net
Date: 11/16/04

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    *** Reply to message from Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@home.nl> on Tue,
    16 Nov 2004 11:11:05 +0100 One more candle and a trip around the
    Sun***

    > Seems you're replying to two mails, and that confuses me. You are not clear
    > about /what/ you tried. What *exactly* did you try?

    Sorry Leen,
    And anyone else I managed to confuse I tried this: Yast ->System
    ->/etc/sysconfig Editor-> ( pause here to input Administrator password
    ) having entered the password it brings me a page w/ a search button,
    lower left an abort button lower middle and a finish button on the
    lower right. Pushing the search button brings up a dialog, as it
    should , for me to enter a search term , or string .. then it brings up
    in response to "cron" as a search string , a series of lines in the
    "search results" window. One of which is the MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP where
    should you care to edit the line, your only choice is a button which
    says Go to or second choice is Cancel... the "go to button" never goes
    anywhere , it closes the search window as one would expect it to do on
    "cancel" I found that a little weird.

    Then I went to /etc/cron.daily and found the Suse.de-clean-tmp file and
    read it.
    But to edit a file to make the system delete or clean those files on
    boot up, /etc/sysconfig/cron will allow editing, if , of course, you
    have root permission. And the Cron.daily/suse-de-clean-tmp shows you
    what the options are for changing.

    I was mainly commenting upon his statement that he couldn't do it via
    yast. I was unalbe to make the changes w/ yast -> system ->
    /etc/sysconfig editor either. And to be perfectly clear, I am trying it
    on a 9.1 box. It hasn't graduated to 9.2 yet. <G>

    My other comment was, I thought there used to be a way to edit those
    files from a similarly named sysconfig editor page in yast where there
    was a great Tree of items and you could make whatever changes were
    allowed by the system there w/ little effort, even if a bit of patience
    was required to locate the bit of information you wished to change,
    that's all.

    Hope this hasn't muddled it more. 

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