From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Re: Temporary file names Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1043 Posted: Mon Feb 14 11:35:07 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 06:18:29 1983 CORRECTION: how about: #anything which is removed automagically after three days on most *4.xBSD* systems and other systems where people have decided to put in something in /usr/lib/crontab where anything called '#anything' is removed automagically after three days. In our case, we remove *everything* that isn't a directory in /tmp and /usr/tmp after three days (to quote Ben Franklin, "Fish and visitors stink after three days"), and remove anything that looks like it was made by mktemp after one day. Guy Harris RLG Corporation (decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)