| Karmic fails to cleanup /tmp | ||
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 | Part I. Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted) |  |
| Karmic fails to cleanup /tmp | ||
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| | Part I. Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted) | |
With our configuration, Ubuntu Karmic didn't cleanup /tmp during boot.
This is due to bug 478392: /tmp is not cleaned at boot when it is on a separate partition.
We can fix this (as suggested in the bugreport thread) by creating a script /etc/init/cleantmp.conf:
# cleantmp - clean /tmp directory at startup
description"clean /tmp"
start on local-filesystems
task
script
if mount | grep -q /tmp
then
rm -Rf /tmp/*
fi
end script
The script complies with the upstart docs, and upstart will execute it at boot.
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| Configuring Apt to update automatically |  | Notifying all logged-in users of LWP machines of something urgent |