[arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

Chris Sakalis chrissakalis at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 12:10:45 EDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> before submitting bug report I want to make sure this isn't feature.
> My problem is that my /tmp folder is no longer cleaned up during boot.
> Now I have to do that manually which is really annoying.
>
> I dug through the git of initscripts and it seems to be caused by the
> replacement of the original code by the systemd-tmpfiles tool. I've
> just tried to run systemd-tmpfiles manually and it seems that it is
> not able to do even a simple task such as rm -rf /tmp/*.
>
> Lukas

Hello,
I do not use systemd, but isn't /tmp supposed to be mounted as tmpfs?
I think the change is relatively recent.

Regards,
Chris Sakalis


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