[arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 12:24:57 EDT 2012


On 20 June 2012 18:20, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:05:38 +0200
> 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
>
> This: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1118239
>
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> Leonid Isaev
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Thanks, searching forums didn't come to my mind at all, as I do not
use forums. I wonder why this hasn't been discussed on ML.

Still, I think such functional change should have been mentioned on
the NEWS page, or at least during package upgrade.

Lukas


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