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Simple question? Well, how do you delete
files in directories that start with a dot in the name? <br>
Rm -r /tmp/.* WILL DELETE THE WHOLE DISK as it selects also the
file /tmp/.. Therefore never try this. The solution is to add two question
marks before the '*'-wildcard: <br> <br>
rm -rf /tmp/.??* /tmp/* <br> <br>
You can put this into  /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog into the "stop)"
section. This will clean up /tmp at every shutdown and keep your disk
tidy.<br>
Do not run the above command while running X11 or before you
run startx. X11 needs the /tmp/.font-unix which is created by xfont server
and X11 it self creates the directory /tmp/.X11-unix which is needed
to talk to the X11 windows.