On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:43:34PM +0200, Hogren wrote
> Hello everybody !
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks for your responses !!
A cron job is the simplest way. Have cron run the command...
find /tmp -mtime +9 -execdir rm -rf {} \;
...every day. "-mtime" (number of days ago the file was last modified)
truncates fractions, so +9 (i.e. greater than 9 days) means *AT LEAST
10 DAYS*. If you want to delete all old files by all users, including
root, the command would have to be run as root.
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
