On Jun 20, 2012 6:32 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 20 June 2012 18:28, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx> 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
