Indeed the script shows that the directory's mtime is checked after the
files have been removed:
DEXPR="-mtime +${TMPTIME} -ctime +${TMPTIME}"
find . -depth -xdev $DEXPR $EXCEPT -type d -empty -delete
** Package changed: sysvinit (Ubuntu) => mountall (Ubuntu)
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** Description changed:
- When set to anything other than 0 (clean all of /tmp), /tmp is cleaned
- of "old" files, but in doing so it updates the modification times of all
- the directories, so that they remain until they themselves become "old".
+ When TMPTIME is set to anything other than 0 (cle
If a directory in /tmp has multiple subdirectories it means that the
director[y|ies] can hang around for months, or even permanently. This
shouldn't use a lot of disk space but will leave /tmp a bit of a mess.
** Tags added: amd64 trusty
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** Summary changed:
- Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the folder's modification
time
+ Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the directory's modification
time
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