I agree that the default of zero is an unpleasant surprise. Under
Fedora, I was accustomed to putting things of little value - temporary
files, like software downloads or one-off test cases - in /tmp; it was
fine that they got deleted after a month or so because by then I would
have forgotten about them. Under Ubuntu, now any time my computer
crashes (a pretty frequent occurrence, since it's a laptop), all of that
is gone. Not a huge loss but certainly an annoyance. Given that most
users have much more disk space than they can use, it seems unlikely
that keeping /tmp files for a few days would harm anyone - and given
that this is a boot job, not a cron job as in Fedora, and desktop
systems could be running indefinitely without a reboot, that does not
seem to be a primary motivation anyway.
This could also be seen as the "root cause" of Bug #15179, that Firefox
downloads get nixed after a reboot without warning; although in that
case it seems that some novice Unix users did not realize that /tmp was
not for long-term storage of files and were putting valuable data (e.g.
OOo documents) there.
Is there nowhere in the desktop preferences GUI to configure TMPTIME? I
had some difficulty finding this setting; I had to read through
bootclean to find it.
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The default value of TMPTIME in /etc/default/rcS should be non-zero
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58502
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