On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 12:13 +0100, John Horne wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 12:01 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I just remotely logged onto my F15 system at work and found
>
> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
>
> which contains this line:
>
> d /tmp 1777 root root 10d
>
Thanks for this. I admit I wasn't aware of this mechanism so have
learned something :-)
Interestingly though, the man page says that files and directories will
be removed. That doesn't seem to happen. I have directories in /tmp (on
F15) which are well over 10 days old. They have no files in them, some
have subdirectories, but no files at all. So it seems to more purge /tmp
of files, but leave the directory structures in place.
Are you actually running systemd (specifically systemd-tmpfiles)? IIRC
it only became the default in F16.
poc