[CentOS] Automatic clean /tmp folder

Fri Apr 9 02:28:18 UTC 2021
Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 01:09:57PM +0000, Gestió Servidors wrote:
>>>> 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.

Typically directories are not deleted if not empty.
Do those folders contain items that were accessed more recently?


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Jon H. LaBadie                  jcu at labadie.us