[systemd-devel] systemd-tmpfiles for the user instance of systemd

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:31:42PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 01.07.15 12:35, Daniel Tihelka (dtihelka at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > does anyone have an experience with the use of systemd-tmpfiles for the user 
> > instance of systemd.
> 
> This is currently not nicely supported. And I am not sure it
> should. Note that much of what tmpfiles supports is only necessary
> for:
> 
> - aging (automatic time-based clean-up of files). Doesn't really apply
>   to user sessions, since /tmp and /var/tmp are already cleaned up by
>   the system instance of tmpfiles

  /var and /tmp are not only aged files.  I'm using tmpfiles for removing
– files in ~/Downloads/* older than 1 year
– emails in ~/Mail/.spam/cur/* older than 1 month

  Out of neccessity I have cleanup configured in system instance for my
specific user only.

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