[arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 21 05:11:15 EDT 2012


> I believe this is correct. However, I would point out that I had to
> disable tmpfs on my Linode because it was taking too much memory.

What are you doing that uses so much memory? I enable a small memory
filesystem that doesn't grow for /tmp on my web servers. You just have
to configure the cleanup (and security) routines.

> The
> ability to clean /tmp at boot should probably be preserved.

The ability I would certainly agree with but has it been removed?
Is the question, Where is the best place to add /bin/rm to init
nowadays?


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