Am 16.07.2016 um 17:07 schrieb D. R. Evans: > Michael Biebl wrote on 07/16/2016 07:25 AM: > >> >> tmpreaper is no longer needed or recommended under systemd. >> systemd-tmpfiles already does time-based cleanup as builtin feature. >> > > Thank you for that information (which was news to me), but in any case I would > far rather rely on a separate program to perform this job than any init > system. > > (I find it hard to see why this would or should be the job of an init system. > An init system can reasonably be assigned the task of deleting things at boot; > but after that I don't see that an init system has any business messing with > the files in /tmp.)
systemd-tmpfiles is a distinct binary as is tmpreaper. We ship it as part of the systemd package because it's useful functionality to have in a base system. Strictly speaking, the tmpfiles.d mechanism is not tied to a particular init. It's just that no-one has provided an implementation for non-systemd. Though we certainly had requests already to provide that. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812215 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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