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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[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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Petter Reinholdtsen