On Friday 15 Jul 2016 08:44:39 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Hogren <[email protected]> wrote: > > After several strange problems, I discovered that my /tmp content was > > never > > deleted. > > > > Is there a natif mechanism (with fstab or other option) and it's just a > > misconfiguration or there isn't, and I need to use a systemd service ? > > If you're using systemd this should all be default behavior, unless > overridden. > > tmpfs ought to be created as a tmpfs due to > /usr/lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount unless you tell it to do something > else in fstab or your own tmp.mount, or you somehow disable it. > > That alone should clear it on every reboot. > > I checked and it looks like the default on Gentoo is to not clear > tmpfiles on a running system at all: > cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf > v /tmp 1777 root root > v /var/tmp 1777 root root > > If you create /etc/tmpfiles.d/mytmp.conf and put those lines with a > "10d" afterwards then it should purge files older than 10 days > automatically. I think. I don't know exactly how tmpfiles.d > overrides work. You might have to copy the entire file to > /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf and then edit those two lines in place. Be > sure to keep the exclusions, you don't want to kill tmpfiles for > running daemons. > > Or you can of course use something like tmpreaper. I still have that > running from my openrc days, and it of course works fine with systemd.
If you are using openrc go to /etc/conf.d/bootmisc and set: clean_tmp_dirs="/tmp" wipe_tmp="YES" -- Regards, Mick
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