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Subject: Re: Clean up /tmp on system reboot [was: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0]
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:14:55 -0700
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On 4/9/2015 3:22 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>>
>> Or use cron...
>
> How can cron help? You don't want to delete these files while some
> process may be
> using them (note: I didn't say while the process has the file open - it
> may not be
> open to be valuable). You really need this clean-up done when the
> machine boots up
> because you know at that point, all the processes that were using those
> files are
> gone.
>
>

Somebody hasn't read man 5 crontab, which states:

These special  time  specification  "nicknames"  are  supported,  which
        replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by 
the '@'
        character:
        @reboot    :    Run once, at startup.
        @yearly    :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
        @annually  :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
        @monthly   :    Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *".
        @weekly    :    Run once a week, ie.  "0 0 * * 0".
        @daily     :    Run once a day, ie.   "0 0 * * *".
        @hourly    :    Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".

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Andrew DeFaria
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