On Sat 15 Mar 2025, Andras Korn wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > I suggest that the default configuration be changed thusly: > > > > > > TMPREAPER_PROTECT_EXTRA='/tmp/user/[0-9]*' > > > TMPREAPER_DIRS='/tmp/. /tmp/user/*/.' > > > > TMPREAPER_DIRS is the list of directories to search for old files, so > > only the TMPREAPER_PROTECT_EXTRA list is what you want. > > Even if /tmp/user (or a particular subdir under /tmp/user) is a mountpoint?
tmpreaper stays on the filesystem(s) the TMPREAPER_DIRS are on. So if /tmp/user is a separate filesystem, you don't need to protect it anyway as tmpreaper won't go there, unless you do specify /tmp/user/*/* but I thought the point of this bug report was _not_ to delete stuff under /tmp/user/* . If you do also want to remove files under /tmp/user/ that don't start with a digit, then sure, then it also needs to be added to TMPREAPER_DIRS. Please let me know what the exact intention is. > And won't the PROTECT_EXTRA also apply to the contents of /tmp/user/[0-9]*/? I'm not sure what you mean with this. If you explicitly add /tmp/user/[0-9]*/ to TMPREAPER_PROTECT_EXTRA then those of course will be protected. BTW I'll probably add --protect /tmp/user/[0-9]* to the cron.daily script instead of changing tmpreaper.conf . Paul
