Hello,

Since installing FC20, I've been struggling to deal with the fact that something is eating files in /tmp before I'm done with them.  (I'm not talking about reboots.)  If I create a file in /tmp, within N minutes, it is deleted.  This is problematic since I have quite a few tools/tasks that require creating transient files in /tmp that need to exist for the duration of the process that creates them.  I removed tmpwatch, assuming that was the problem but that did nothing.

After some research I've found tmpfiles.d, which can't be removed because it is wrapped in the systemd package.  I attempted to disable cleaning of /tmp and /var/tmp by making the following change to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf but no dice:

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#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.

# See tmpfiles.d(5) for details

# Clear tmp directories separately, to make them easier to override
#d /tmp 1777 root root 10d
#d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d

# Exclude namespace mountpoints created with PrivateTmp=yes
x /tmp
x /var/tmp
X /tmp
X /var/tmp
x /tmp/*
x /var/tmp/*
X /tmp/*
X /var/tmp/*
#x /tmp/systemd-*.service-*
#x /var/tmp/systemd-*.service-*
#X /tmp/systemd-*.service-*/tmp
#X /var/tmp/systemd-*.service-*/tmp
#x /tmp/systemd-*.socket-*
#x /var/tmp/systemd-*.socket-*
#X /tmp/systemd-*.socket-*/tmp
#X /var/tmp/systemd-*.socket-*/tmp
#x /tmp/systemd-*.mount-*
#x /var/tmp/systemd-*.mount-*
#X /tmp/systemd-*.mount-*/tmp
#X /var/tmp/systemd-*.mount-*/tmp
#x /tmp/systemd-*.swap-*
#x /var/tmp/systemd-*.swap-*
#X /tmp/systemd-*.swap-*/tmp
#X /var/tmp/systemd-*.swap-*/tmp
## keep those for compatibility during upgrades
#x /tmp/systemd-private-*
#x /var/tmp/systemd-private-*
#X /tmp/systemd-private-*/tmp
#X /var/tmp/systemd-private-*/tmp
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Can someone point me to the correct way to fix this problem?

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--tucker