CentOS - Apr 2021 - Automatic clean /tmp folder

>>> With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in
/tmp
>>> would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some
files/folders
>>> with more than 10 days.
>>>
>>> What I have done wrong?
>>
>> The test is on access time, not modification. Have they been read in
the last 10 days?
>
>And note that a GUI file manager might attempt to read every file in a
>directory in order to determine its type and display the correct icon.

I have check my /tmp folder with "find ./ -atime +10d" and there are
some folders that appears as "accessed" more than 10 days ago... so I
don't understand why automatic deletion system has not deleted them.

Thanks.

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 01:09:57PM +0000, Gesti? Servidors
wrote:
>>>> With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days
in /tmp
>>>> would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some
files/folders
>>>> with more than 10 days.
>>>>
>>>> What I have done wrong?
>>>
>>> The test is on access time, not modification. Have they been read
in the last 10 days?
>>
>>And note that a GUI file manager might attempt to read every file in a
>>directory in order to determine its type and display the correct icon.
>
>I have check my /tmp folder with "find ./ -atime +10d" and there
are
>some folders that appears as "accessed" more than 10 days ago...
so I
>don't understand why automatic deletion system has not deleted them.
>
>Thanks.
Typically directories are not deleted if not empty.
Do those folders contain items that were accessed more recently?


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