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   Carlos E.R. to Andrew   
   Re: Can you help with these odd files in   
   27 Aug 20 14:47:51   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 27/08/2020 13.52, Andrew wrote:   
   > grinch wrote:   
   >> On 26/08/2020 19:55, grinch wrote:   
   >>> On 26/08/2020 09:43, grinch wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I am seeing lots of these files  in my /tmp   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.XXXXX.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Google tells me that they are a bug in Chromium which I don't have   
   >>>> installed. Also it google mentions a programme called electron which   
   >>>> I also don't have installed   
   >>>>   
   >>>> They are soon removed but it is annoying that they exist in the   
   >>>> first place.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Any ideas  please ?   
   >>> Thanks all, I will use bleachbit as I always run it before I close to   
   >>> delete cache files thumbnails etc . Running bleachbit manually  as   
   >>> root cleans out /tmp and /var/tmp without issue.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Thanks all, I have set my /tmp to be deleted daily and /var.tmp every   
   >> 5 days.   
   >>   
   >> I initially set them both to 1 day to see if I had my settings correct   
   >> and when I proved I  had set /var/tmp to 5 days.   
   >   
   > According to: man 5 tmpfiles.d   
   > the "5d" you are presumably using means "delete stuff older than 5   
   > days", not "delete every 5 days".   
      
   It would be preferable to delete files that have not been used (opened)   
   for X days.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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