On 04/21/2014 04:36 PM, Matthew Miller 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*.
Andrew.