Re: [SLE] /tmp cleaning

From: Leendert Meyer (leen.meyer_at_home.nl)
Date: 11/16/04

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:15:01 +0100

    On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:33, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > *** 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,

    No problem, you explained below, thanks. :)

    > 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 ,

    Perhaps you need to select an item with the mouse or keyboard first?

    > it closes the search window as one would expect it to do on
    > "cancel" I found that a little weird.

    So do I. Ok, you tried Patrick's way, and somehow it didn't work. Maybe try
    the old fashioned way: grepping /etc/sysconfig/*, and edit the found file.

    Still does work well. :)

    > 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>

    I do it on a 9.2 box (a slightly hacked DVD version). ;) The search and goto
    works overhere.

    > 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.

    Huh? AFAIU that great tree of items /is/ the sysconfig editor.

    > Hope this hasn't muddled it more.

    Nah. ;))

    Cheers,

    Leen 

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