SingletonCookie

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I have a mass of directories in /tmp which contain a single file called SingletonCookie. They are related to www/chromium, which I use extensvely.

According to file -s SingletonCookie

SingletonCookie: broken symbolic link to 2138267798210928353
Periodic daily won't get rid of them. How should I handle them?
 
If it's a broken symlink, then obviously what it pointed to has been removed.
I would try as root rm -vf on one of them to see if you can remove it. It may give a clue as to a permissions problem or something.
 
If the system is powered down (or rebooted) regularly, set in /etc/rc.conf
Code: 
clear_tmp_enable="YES"

That will clean up /tmp at startup, except X11 lock files. See /etc/defaults/rc.conf and rc.conf(5).
 
mer said:
If it's a broken symlink, then obviously what it pointed to has been removed.
I would try as root rm -vf on one of them to see if you can remove it. It may give a clue as to a permissions problem or something.
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All the directories and files were deleted without any problem. I just can't figure out why /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps doesn't delete these files.
 
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