>>> With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp >>> would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders >>> with more than 10 days. >>> >>> What I have done wrong? >> >> The test is on access time, not modification. Have they been read in the last 10 days? > >And note that a GUI file manager might attempt to read every file in a >directory in order to determine its type and display the correct icon. I have check my /tmp folder with "find ./ -atime +10d" and there are some folders that appears as "accessed" more than 10 days ago... so I don't understand why automatic deletion system has not deleted them. Thanks.