[GRASS5] Cleaning of temp files

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Wed Apr 17 05:47:30 EDT 2002


Hi,

it seems that sometimes problems occur with the cleaning of
temporal files. Normally, when a GRASS session is closed,
the tool
$GISBASE/etc/clean_temp

is called. However, people who work in a single project
may not close the GRASS session for weeks. In that
case tons of temporal data in
$LOCATION/$MAPSET/.tmp/$HOSTNAME/
are stored, consuming eventually lot of space (I just discovered
temp files totally consuming 1GB in our network).

Does anyone have a suggestion if we can install something
like a cronjob or whatever, which deletes temp files of
a certain age?

Markus



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