Bug 21122

Summary: /tmp is persistent across reboots
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 6.2CC: dr, rvokal
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Description Kjetil T. Homme 2000-11-20 14:24:22 UTC 
/tmp isn't cleaned up upon boot.  Here's the trivial patch:

--- rc.sysinit.orig     Mon Nov 20 15:00:51 2000
+++ rc.sysinit  Mon Nov 20 15:23:59 2000
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@
 mount -f /
 mount -f /proc
 
+# Remove all files in /tmp
+action "Clearing /tmp" rm -rf /tmp/.[^.] /tmp/.??* /tmp/*
+
 # Update quotas if fsck was run on /.
 if [ X"$_RUN_QUOTACHECK" = X1 -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then
        action "Checking root filesystem quotas"  /sbin/quotacheck -v /
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-21 15:54:34 UTC 
/tmp is cleaned by the tmpwatch cron script.