[arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

[Tom Gundersen]

On Jun 20, 2012 6:32 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 20 June 2012 18:28, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 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/*.
> >
> > There was a slight change in behavior. Earlier we would delete all
files at
> > boot, now we (or rather systemd-tmpfiles on our behalf) delete all 'old
> > files'. That is, all files that have not been accessed within the last
then
> > days.
> >
> > This behavior is configured in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf. To change
the
> > behavior, copy the file to /etc/tmpfiles.d/ and edit it there. You can
> > easily configure it to get the old behavior back.
> >
> > Alternatively, you could put /tmp on a tmpfs, to throw away all
contents on
> > reboot; or create a cron job that calls systemd-tmpfiles regularly (say
> > once a day) to also delete old files at runtime, rather than only at
boot.
> >
> > Check 'man tmpfiles.d' for more details.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom
>
> Already did that. I changed the config to:
> d /tmp 1777 root root 0d
> d /var/tmp 1777 root root 0d

Looks like a bug, if you create a bug report I'll look into it.

That said, I think you want to use 'D' rather than 'd' (check the man
page). Alternatively, you can specify an age in milliseconds, rather than
days...

Tom