Am 17.10.19 um 13:33 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Maybe this is a misunderstanding how x/X is supposed to work. > "D /tmp 1777 root root -" is supposed to clean up /tmp during boot > unconditionally. It is *not* using age based cleaning. > > This Debian specific change was made as this has always been the > behaviour in Debian. > > The documentation for the x/X parameter says: >> x >> Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths >> from clean-up as controlled with the Age >> parameter > > > So x/X having no effect on "D /tmp 1777 root root -" is expected, I'd > say and they work as documented. > > Please elaborate.
As a side note: I recommend to use tmpfs for /tmp nowadays. A side-effect of this is, that /tmp is not persistent and automatically cleaned up on (re)boot. If you need files to survive a reboot, you should not place them in /tmp; /var/tmp seems more appropriate in that case. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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