From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 26/08/2020 20.43, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 26/08/2020 15.19, grinch wrote:   
   >>> On 26/08/2020 12:49, Andrew wrote:   
   >>>> grinch wrote:   
   >>>>> On 26/08/2020 09:43, grinch wrote:   
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   >   
   >>>> I clear /tmp on every boot.  There's a setting in YaST somewhere   
   >>>> which does this, unfortunately a quick search has not come up with   
   >>>> the setting.  Whatever the setting is, it works under Leap 15.1.   
   >>>   
   >>> Bleachbit does a similar job, but I will investigate the yast option   
   >>> thanks for the tip.   
   >>   
   >> AFAIK, the option was removed years ago. There is a systemd file that   
   >> can be modified, though.   
   >   
   > See man 5 tmpfiles.d   
   >   
   > cp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf   
   > change:   
   >   
   > # Clear tmp directories separately, to make them easier to override   
   > # SUSE policy: we don't clean those directories   
   > d /tmp 1777 root root -   
   > d /var/tmp 1777 root root -   
   >   
   > to:   
   >   
   > # Clear tmp directories separately, to make them easier to override   
   > # My policy: empty /tmp en /var/tmp.   
   > D /tmp 1777 root root 1d   
   > D /var/tmp 1777 root root 1d   
   >   
   > or, to have it run only on boot:   
   >   
   > d! /tmp 1777 root root -   
   > d! /var/tmp 1777 root root -   
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   > more info:   
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   Yes, that's pretty much what I use (I had forgotten that YaST no longer   
   does this) and it just struck me that I have a newish system where I   
   have not set that up yet.   
   Thanks.   
      
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