Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > You know, that's a pretty good idea! > > Put a 00README-TMP.txt in /tmp/ and /var/tmp/ which briefly states the > default deletion policy, the policy in place if it's not the default, > and a pointer to info about altering it. "/tmp's contents are deleted > at boot while /var/tmp is preserved across rebooting." Maybe in > /var/tmp suggest /var/scratch/ or /var/cache/tmp or such as a place > sysadmins might want to set up for not-backed-up but not-auto-deleted > material. > > If the contents aren't dynamic, maybe they could be links to files in > /usr/share/doc/systemd/.
This seems like a *great* idea. systemd-tmpfiles configuration can easily create such a file, either with contents or as a symlink to a documentation file in /usr/share/doc.