[plug] Keeping a running server clean

[Tim White]

James Devenish wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In message <4179D57D.3040403 at tigris.org>
>on Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:52:29AM +0800, Tim White wrote:
>  
>
>>I didn't find any that appeared to clean up stale locks, or /tmp.
>>    
>>
>
>With Linux, it is typical that /tmp only gets cleaned upon reboot. This
>is nice for desktop machines. In contact, some BSD operating systems
>clean /tmp regularly. Most people would not expect /tmp to be flushed on
>a regular basis, so what you have experienced is "normal". However,
>"stale locks" is not very explanatory. Is this a netware thing? I don't
>know anything about netware.
>  
>
A stale lock is when a process has a file locked and then dies without 
unlocking it. I haven't seen it happen under Linux yet buy it commonly 
happens under windows and I have now also seen it under netware (5, 6 
will run on a BSD Kernel)
I am going to hack up a little app to see if I can get it to happen 
under Linux.
Do people know of a script to clean up /tmp? Obviously it should only 
clean files not in use.
Tim

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