Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2011, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > $ tail -2 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
> > d /tmp 1777 root root 10d
> > d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d
>
> systemd is also cron replacement?
>
> > That tells systemd to clear files older than 10 resp 30 days in those
> > directories. systemd does not honor TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR.
>
> If this is really the default now then it should have been a major point
> on ReleaseNotes.
> Since this major change was not announced I would consider it a major
> bug to be fixed by adding /etc/tmpfiles.d according to what is the
> default in /etc/sysconfig/cron.
>
>
> cu,
> Rudi

Rudi,

If you read the whole thread:

- The user at some point in the past added /var/tmp to /etc/tmpfiles.d

- apparently a bug kept that from being honored, so files just sat there

- 12.1 fixed the bug and files disappeared.

Overall its bad luck, but it is not a major issue from the release
management perspective.

Greg


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