On Wednesday 01 of July 2015 12:00:59 Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Heya,
Hello, thank for the reply. > On 1 July 2015 at 11:35, Daniel Tihelka <dtihe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > does anyone have an experience with the use of systemd-tmpfiles for the > > user instance of systemd. > > My question would be - what sort of files are you creating with tmpfiles? > Well, my intention was mostly put it on my directory, where I use to store some temporary results and data, and where there is currently a several GB mess :-) The task of systemd-tmpfiles tool would mostly be to prone files older than, let say 5 months (I know that all important data must be copied from the dir ...). And possibly also a downloads dir, chrome cache and stuff like that. Sure, it could be achieved by a find-embedding script as well, but if there is this systemd-tmpfiles which I do not have to tune and check if it is working correctly (which may be harder on several-months scale ...) > system stuff is known to use dynamic directories in /var /run and > similar and it all used to be created ad-hoc in either packaging or > the init scripts. > > User stuff on the other hand, generally works with untouched home > directories as they typically are not allowed to be modified by > typical packaging systems. Hence most of the user things handle > creation of the dirs they need themself and do it gracefully enough. Agree. Well, I know that my usage of systemd-tmpfiles is not that it was primarily designed to, but its capabilities match my intention quiet well, I think (except the few config-related "inconsistencies" I mentioned). Thank you again, DT
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