On Jun 20, 2012 6:05 PM, "Lukáš Jirkovský" <l.jirkov...@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
