Can I safely delete all the "0" size files in /home/username/tmp ?

[James Mcphee]

These are sockets for corba.  You can safely remove any of the socket files
that existed before the last reboot.  Your system "should" do this
automatically, but I'm guessing whatever you have doesn't clean up your user
tmp.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, James Finstrom <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com
> wrote:

> The answer often depends on the software I have often seen scripts and
> programs touch files for reference
>
> On 1/4/09, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> > In my /home/username/tmp/orbit -username directory, I have hundreds of
> files
> > of "0" (zero) file size dating back three years.  Is there any reason
> > why all these
> > files cannot be deleted?  And why aren't they automatically deleted at
> > reboot
> > if the are, in fact, just 'tmp' files?
> >
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec  9 06:33 linc-985-0-5ade3bcfbbb33
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec 15 07:05 linc-7a43-0-f80783d1f283
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec 15 07:15 linc-7aae-0-5a1a5effe7972
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec 15 07:15 linc-7ab0-0-7db99ee517913
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec 27 10:25 linc-4650-0-3a4016ed619f1
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Dec 27 10:25 linc-466e-0-2bd9b9541657b
> > -rw-rw-r--  1 joe joe 661 Jan  3 01:19 bonobo-activation-server-ior
> > srwxr-xr-x  1 joe joe   0 Jan  4 13:30 linc-6c0d-0-5efb73cbc5321
> > srwxrwxr-x  1 joe joe   0 Jan  4 13:30 linc-6bfe-0-744fa82528c43
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