-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-05-06 at 14:33 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:06:42PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: [ 8< ]
Aged temp files are deleted, but not if they belong to root.
By default no files are deleted. Independent of the user. See /etc/sysconfig/cron:MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP
I didn't say otherwise, I know that variable. But I think it was enabled by default years back.
Shouldn't they be deleted too? Alternatively, couldn't they be handled with another set of settings for root's temp files?
/etc/sysconfig/cron already provides this. Cf. OWNER_TO_KEEP_IN_TMP.
Yes, but the fact that, by default, root is listed there, implies there is some danger in doing that - or you would have cleared that variable years ago. For instance, it occurs to me that the MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP should be ignored if the uptime is greater.
BTW Doing it different would cause the same repetitive complains as there are still regarding SuSEconfig overwriting settings. This had been the case in the very, very early S.u.S.E. days but trolls still put out this rumour.
:-)
I recently heard about some yast module overwriting local settings with no warning. Maybe postfix, I don't remember.
I recently heard ... Bugzilla, our life is driven by bugzilla. Without a report in bugzilla and a case to reproduce the defect there is no bug. ;)
If it were me, I might. As this is a mail list for commenting things, I mentioned what I said. Someone may remember exact ocassions and report them :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIIFbptTMYHG2NR9URAmh5AJ9ECc7ljzAnPCw2/p3Q4H0bY/gWqQCfZJ9a Ht4JlCZSq+o5OQap3t2sVcU= =eNkq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----