Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, November 19, 2011 05:40:03 PM Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> On Saturday 19 November 2011 13:11:43 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > Maybe the user has the "tmpwatch" package installed.. ? that's gonna
> > delete files in /var/tmp if they are older than 30 days.
>
> No, he hasn't.
>
>
> In case someone hasn't understood yet: I'm not disputing whether it's a good
> idea to clean out /var/tmp/ -- it possibly is --, what annoys me is a
> sudden change in behaviour that kills data without warning, even if they
> might have been in the wrong place (which isn't such a clear case). But I
> accept that this isn't default in 12.1 and must come from somewhere else.
>
> I also have my ~/tmp/ since years. Still, I considered stuff in /var/tmp/ to
> be maintained by the applications which put it there. And if $USER put
> stuff in /var/tmp/$USER/ then I assumed that it would be $USER's
> responsibility to clean it, whenever s/he feels like it. Temporary doesn't
> necessarily mean "short-lived". If data is important enough that it should
> survive rebooting, then it shouldn't be treated as trash by the system.
>
> m.
Were there any release notes related to the changes in tmp etc? I was 
surprised myself when I opened up the partitioner and sa a bunch of TMPFS I 
had never seen before, only one of which I could recognize as being something 
systemd probably needed.
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