Re: What is private/var/tmp ?

From: "void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky-uunet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:48:04 -0500

On 29/11/2005 11:23 AM, john_doe_ph_d@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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What gets put into private/var/tmp and is it safe to empty it out? If
so, how do you go about doing that since I don't think I was able to
get to it with the Finder.

Safe to ignore, as this is just a place for tempfiles used by system daemons and the like. One can get to /var/tmp via the Terminal. I think the Finder hides anything that resolves to /private.

It is /probably/ safe to empty this out, though there could be stuff in there currently in use. If you really have 3Gb in there, then something is not being cleaned up. On many BSD systems, both /tmp and /var/tmp are cleaned up on boot. Maybe one of the periodic scripts or a startup script does this on OS X? I've never needed to look for this, and my Tiger box is not to hand right now. .

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