How to clean tmp folder automatically

Introduction

Removing temporary files left over in your /tmp folder, is not as easy as it looks like. At least not on a multi-user system that's connected to a network.

If you do it the wrong way, you can leave your system open to attacks that could compromise your system's integrity

Many people have query that how to automatically clean /tmp folder.  I’ve made a simple script to do this task effortlessly.

#!/bin/bash
for i in `/bin/ls -1 /tmp | egrep -v "eaccelerator|mysql.sock|lost+found|CleanTmp.sh"`;
do rm -rfv /tmp/"$i";
done ;
/etc/init.d/httpd restart;
/etc/init.d/mysql restart

If you have other files which you want to exclude and that you do not want to delete that add it after lost+found|

What you have to do is add the above script in any file and add a cron to run the file as per your convenience.

If you have any questions then, please keep them coming in the comments and if you want you can contact me.