Netscape food for thought

[Warren Togami]

You may have to do testing for yourself to know if it is safe to zero out
those files.  Please let me know about your findings, and I'd be very
interested to see your backup script.

Most stuff in /tmp can usually be deleted safely anytime because it is old
cruft, but some stuff like MCOP and DCOP socket files and certain swap files
are in use by KDE, GNOME, some server software, and other software users may
be running.  It is usually safe to completely clear out /tmp during reboots
in your rc init scripts.  Mandrake has a built-in option that does that.
Otherwise if no users are using the server, you can clear out /tmp safely by
stopping server services, clearing /tmp, then reactivating it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Beeson" <beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: [luau] Netscape food for thought


To all,

I'm thinking about modifying a 'clean-up' script that I use just prior
to system backups.  The script currently descends the directory structure
and deletes all the netscape cache files that it finds.  No sense backing
up that stuff.  What I was wondering is would there be any harm in
zeroing out the following files (I use Netscape 4.X for now):

I also would like to know if anyone is familiar enough with the
collection of files that appear in the /tmp directory to know which files
can safely be deleted.  Although I don't back them up, they are there and
some of them are pretty old...

Thanks,

Ben