On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 16:57:37 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> I have setup systemd-tmpfiles in user mode as follows :
>
> systemd-tmpfiles --user --cat-config
> # /home/erwan/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/perso.conf
> d /home/erwan/tmp 0755 erwan erwan 60d
> d /home/erwan/Downloads 0755 erwan erwan 90d
>
> However, those directories are not cleaned.
>
> What should I check ?
Well, this is not entirely clear to me:
DESCRIPTION
systemd-tmpfiles creates, deletes, and cleans up files and directories,
using the configuration file format and location specified in
tmpfiles.d(5). It must be invoked with one or more options --create,
--remove, and --clean, to select the respective subset of operations.
System services (systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service,
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service, systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service)
invoke systemd-tmpfiles to create system files and to perform system
wide cleanup. [...]
Users may use this to create and
clean up files under their control, but the system instance performs
global cleanup and is not influenced by user configuration. Note that
this means a time-based cleanup configured in the system instance, such
as the one typically configured for /tmp/, will thus also affect files
created by the user instance if they are placed in /tmp/, even if the
user instance's time-based cleanup is turned off.
Do you have a --user service with "clean" in its name? Is it running?
Does it have anything journalled?
I wonder who thinks this is actually an improvement over dropping a
find command in your crontab. One (admittedly complex) line and you're
done versus trying to decipher all of *that*? I know which one I'd
go with.
