Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> Apparently, 12.1 has added /var/tmp/ to TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR in
> /etc/sysconfig/cron. I was quite surprised when I found out today
> that I've lost a few GB of data, which used to be safe there.
>
> Needless to say that I'm not pleased. No backups, because it
> wasn't *that* important, but I find such changes without warning
> suboptimal, to put it politely.
>
> m.

-----------------

        I would agree with the above.

        Traditionally /var/tmp has been in "LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR"...

I have them set to 'autoclean at 21 and 42 days', respectively.


I think it would be irresponsible and violate normal unix-cleaning 
standards to treat /var/tmp the same  as /tmp.


If the desire was to treat them the same, then there would never have been
two separate directories in the first place!


--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx