[systemd-devel] sanity check: why am I unable to manage my own directory with systemd-tmpfiles?

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

Run it directly on your config file as:

    SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-tmpfiles --remove --clean
/path/to/tmpfiles.d/foobar.conf

(I'd rather place custom configs in /etc/tmpfiles.d and leave /usr for the
package management.)

Most likely the issue is that systemd-tmpfiles also considers not just the
mtime but also access time (it wouldn't do any good if it started removing
actively-used files just because they haven't been modified), as well as
btime (birth) and ctime (inode change) – the latter two you cannot backdate
with `touch`.

If you want to only consider modification time, specify it as something
like "mM:10d" – see "Age" in tmpfiles.d(5).

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas
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