[SOLVED] /tmp files removed at boot

Question

Hi there,
I had been using /tmp as a tmpfs for a while, however I've lost precious work files on a couple of occasions - mostly because I'm stupid - by rebooting the laptop, prior to saving those files.
Now, after losing 6 hours work again I've decided to move /tmp out of tmpfs and just leave it as part of the / filesystems.
However it seems that arch likes to clean /tmp on boot, I've grep'ed and re'gredp around /etc and I can't find any entry that removes /tmp files on boot or shutdown.
Does anyone know where is this done ?
$ sudo pacman -Q | grep initscripts
initscripts 2011.07.3-1
Last edited by jorge.costa (2011-09-20 13:06:22)

Answer 1

hold on, found a scroogle post about it,
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 01577.html
its something fairly new,
+_x() {
+    # Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths from clean-up as
+    # controlled with the Age parameter. Note that lines of this type do not
+    # influence the effect of r or R lines. Lines of this type accept shell-style
+    # globs in place of of normal path names.
+    :
+    # XXX: we don't implement this
*worried about that last XXX
+++ b/tmpfiles.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#
+# /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/arch.conf
+#
+
+d /tmp/.X11-unix 1777 root root 10d
+d /tmp/.ICE-unix 1777 root root 10d
+d /tmp/.XIM-unix 1777 root root 10d
+d /tmp/.font-unix 1777 root root 10d
+d /tmp/.Test-unix 1777 root root 10d
+
+f /var/run/tmp 0664 - utmp
+
+r /tmp/.X[0-9]-lock
+r /etc/nologin
+r /etc/shutdownpid
+r /forcefsck
+
+D /tmp/
+D /var/run/daemons
+
trying it with:
cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/arch.conf
### FILE FORMAT ###
# XXX: We ignore the final 'Age' parameter
# 0    1              2    3    4    5
# Type Path           Mode UID  GID  Age
# d    /run/user      0755 root root 10d
x /tmp/