[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385050: initscripts: TMPTIME cleanup doesn't work in /tmp

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hi,

I think my bug report is invalid.
But before doing a close I'd like to ask a small question.

I was going through bootclean.sh file to see how it worked.

This is what I think is the main part that does the cleanup

        if [ "$TMPTIME" = 0 ]
        then
                TEXPR=""
                DEXPR=""
        else
                TEXPR="-mtime +$TMPTIME -ctime +$TMPTIME -atime +$TMPTIME"
                DEXPR="-mtime +$TMPTIME -ctime +$TMPTIME"
        fi

        EXCEPT='! -name .
                ! ( -path ./lost+found -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./quota.user -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./aquota.user -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./quota.group -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./aquota.group -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./.journal -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path ./.clean -uid 0 )
                ! ( -path './...security*' -uid 0 )'

        mkflagfile /tmp/.clean || return 1

        report_err()
        {
                if [ "$VERBOSE" = no ]
                then
                        log_failure_msg "bootclean: Failure cleaning /tmp."
                else
                        log_action_end_msg 1 "bootclean: Failure 
cleaning /tmp"
                fi
        }

        #
        # First remove all old files...
        # (Use xargs here so that only one additional process gets created)
        #
        find . -depth -xdev $TEXPR $EXCEPT ! -type d \
                -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f -- \
                || { report_err ; return 1 ; }



Assuming a TMPCLEAN value of 3 days, I tried the following on my laptop:
geeKISSexy:/tmp# find . -depth -xdev -mtime +3 -ctime +3
./ksocket-rrs/secret-cookie
./zmann8cH1i
./plugins
./features

Where are there are many files/folders older than 3 days. I understand that 
they aren't listed here because their access time would be lesser than 3 
days.

My only question is is under what criteria is the access time for a 
file/folder altered ? If I browse the /tmp folder using the Konqueror File 
Manager, Is it going to alter the access time for the files/folders 
under /tmp ?

Thanks,
Ritesh


On Wednesday 06 September 2006 18:00, you wrote:
> [Ritesh Raj Sarraf]
>
> > You can notice that there are many files which are older than 5
> > days, but they aren't cleaned.
>
> Are you expecting TMPTIME to have effect on an ongoing basis, aka to
> make sure /tmp/ only have files newer than 5 days old?
>
> The TMPTIME value only affect the behaviour during boot.  If you want
> something that clean /tmp/ daily, please check out some of the
> packages to do that, for example tmpreaper.  If the documentation for
> TMPTIME fail to make this clear, how can we change the text to make it
> clearer?
>
> If your problem is that the files are not cleaned during boot, please
> try to run 'sh -x /etc/init.d/bootclean' and submit the output here.
>
> Friendly,

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