Re: [Nix-dev] cleaning /tmp

2012-01-30 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 30/01/12 12:54, Florian Friesdorf wrote: services.cleanTmp.paths = [ '/tmp' '/var/tmp' ] (default) services.cleanTmp.onBoot = true; The FHS says: Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically

Re: [Nix-dev] cleaning /tmp

2012-01-30 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:08:28 +0100, Eelco Dolstra e.dols...@tudelft.nl wrote: Hi, On 30/01/12 12:54, Florian Friesdorf wrote: services.cleanTmp.paths = [ '/tmp' '/var/tmp' ] (default) service.cleanTmp.paths = [ '/tmp' ] (default) services.cleanTmp.onBoot = true; The FHS says:

Re: [Nix-dev] cleaning /tmp

2012-01-30 Thread Marc Weber
Can we compare the solution add nixos option to adding a recipes wiki page adding such one liners as samples? Marc Weber ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] cleaning /tmp

2012-01-29 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, After a reboot, I found that my /tmp is taking up 8Gb of space. I don't want to use a tmpfs for it, as I occasionally use audio/video tools that write to /tmp, with sizes above my system memory. Looking at FHS's recommendations, I would say there are 2 moments to clean /tmp. - At boot

Re: [Nix-dev] cleaning /tmp

2012-01-29 Thread Marc Weber
Does nixos have anything in place to manage /tmp? What do others do? It was committed once in the past and reverted again for good reasons. (eg before switching to SSD/tmpfs I deleted /tmp only once every 4 months keeping files around.) If you want it opt-in by using a startup shell script. Eg