On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:43:21PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 09:11:58PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I don't know when the aged based cleaning started, but it isn't
expressly
>> stated in the original feature and I'm not finding a followup feature that
>> indicates this change. On the other hand, it sounds like most of the time
>> applications shouldn't use (or depend on) /tmp anyway since they can't
>> depend on any sort of persistence.
> We've been running tmpwatch on /tmp since... I don't even know when. Years.
tmpwatch clears files every few minutes? Really? And this has not broken
scripts? My tmp.conf says 10 days, but the OP said every few *minutes*.
I'm replying to "I don't know when the aged based cleaning started", as
clearly quoted above.
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