For what it's worth, this is still FUBAR.  I definitely see a bug here.  I recently moved from Xubuntu -> Fedora XFCE -> "Plain" Fedora and this is when this all started happening.  Both the Xfce respin and the "plain" setup were FC20.  I've attempted to disable anything that might be eating things from /tmp and change all the configs I can find.  The max lifetime of a file in /tmp if 60m.  After teh 60m mark, it's gone.  To be honest, the length of time that tmpwatch has been doing Bad Things (yes, I think force cleaning /tmp is Bad) is of little concern to me.  The fact that there appears to be no way to make it stop, is a bug.  When did this become tangled in the pile of spaghetti that is systemd?


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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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