[arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Savyasachee Jha]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Olivier Langlois <
olivier at olivierlanglois.net> wrote:

> Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this
> new systemd enhancement), systemd started to automatically clean /tmp
> directory daily. This is not something that I like as I prefer to decide
> when to clean up and to manually perform the clean up.
>
> I have tried
>
> systemctl stop systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
> systemctl disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
>
> The disabling apparently did not survived a reboot and the undesired
> systemd service came back.
>
> I guess that I could mess with tmpfiles-clean config file but I am just
> not interested in the service at all. What is the sure way method to
> disable it for good?
>
> thank you,
>
>
>
Try:

systemctl mask systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

Should definitely work.

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