My reading of the man page for tmpfiles.d suggests that if I edit the file /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf so that it contains the line:
d /tmp 1777 root root 35d then files in /tmp will be deleted after 35 days. However, that isn't happening; I see for example: drwxr-xr-x 18 n7dr n7dr 4096 May 13 07:42 Images-190513 drwxr-xr-x 18 n7dr n7dr 4096 May 13 07:47 Images-190514 in the output from "ls -alt /tmp": those directories were created more than 35 days ago. So apparently I am misunderstanding how this works. Perhaps when the man page says "file" it's not including directories. Anyway, whatever the reason, it's clearly not doing what I want, which is to remove all files and directories with names of the form "/tmp/<something>" that are more than 35 days old. Can someone enlighten me as to the correct command to do this? Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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