On Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:33:09 -0500 (EST) 
 dej@achilles.net (David Jones) wrote:

 > Let's assume that we all agree that /scratch is material of a transient
 > nature.  The real problem is that the NetBSD core team imposed an
 > undocumented policy that overrides whatever policy might have been
 > in place.  For example, I could...
 > 
 > - delete anything over a week old in /scratch
 > - delete everything once a week
 > - etc.
 > 
 > This type of policy is not a decision for the core team to make, esp.
 > when it is so destructive.

...and I'm not certain that `core' did...Looking at my 4.4BSD /etc/daily:

#!/bin/sh -
#
#       @(#)daily       8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94
#
[ . . . ]
if [ -d /scratch ]; then
        cd /scratch && {
        find . ! -name . -atime +1 -exec rm -f -- {} \;
        find . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \
            >/dev/null 2>&1; }
fi
[ . . . ]

Indeed, it appears that this is "historical" practice that was simply 
never *changed* by NetBSD (probably because no one had even mentioned it 
before...)

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