Hello again,
I followed the instructions in this forum for enabling cron to clear /tmp & /var/tmp at boot, ie max days in tmp / long tmp etc & they are not being cleared. Apparently this is a bug in 12.1?
Are there any views in running them in tmpfs? I know how to do this, but wondered what the views of more expereinced people were in doing this practically?
I have 6gb ram & don’t run any apps which put massive amounts of data in these dirs.
Thank you.
Apparently this is a bug in 12.1
You could be right
I just checked /tmp
And it’s full of older stuff
I am putting “/tmp” in tmpfs. That works fine. I am doing that mainly because of the problem of clearing “/tmp” at boot.
I would not do that with “/var/tmp”. Traditionally, “/var/tmp” is persistent beyond reboots, and some software might depend on it. At present, I see a little from zypper, and cached info from KDE. Presumably, KDE startup would be slower if I did not retain that cache.
That clearing “/tmp” at boot does not work has been reported as Bug 721682. The problem seems to be a side effect of the switch to “systemd”.