Re: [CentOS] /tmp

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:35:59PM -0300, Centos wrote:

the tmpwatch in crontab is as follow , and I believe it should remove the files after 240 hours, but as far as I see , it removes them much more earlier. more /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp

There's a subtle issue. It will remove them after their access time is older than 240 hours. The access time could be somehow set to older than that with a program like 'touch' -- and, I have no idea how it deals with filesystems mounted with noatime. (Is yours?)