[systemd-devel] Services enabled by default?

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon Sep 20 12:03:43 PDT 2010


On Mon, 20.09.10 20:55, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 20:47, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20.09.10 09:16, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (barbieri at profusion.mobi) wrote:
> >>   - should we provide a "clean /tmp" service?
> >
> > Ideally, we'd just mount tmpfs there, bug I guess given that we don't do
> > that we might want to add a tool for this, indeed.
> 
> I do this since long for /tmp. /var/tmp might be more difficult, as is
> supposed to be able to carry large files.
> 
> The thing with the service is that we probably want it for
> long-running boxes, where you also want to clean a tmpfs /tmp.

Good point.

It might make sense to add a default tmpwatch file to systemd then which
is run via a .time unit and on boot.



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