Bug 762002

Summary:	Setting MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP = 0 in /etc/sysconfig/cron does not disable the deletion of files as documented
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Helmut Walle <helmut.walle>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 12.1
See Also:	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721682 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739438
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Description Helmut Walle 2012-05-13 07:10:24 UTC

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Setting MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP = 0 in /etc/sysconfig/cron does not disable the deletion of files as documented.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Perform a clean install of openSUSE 12.1 with default settings.
2. As a non-root user, create some files in /tmp
3. Reboot the system a few days (maybe you don't have to wait that long - a day may be enough) later and wait until cron.daily has been executed - the files belonging to non-root users will have been deleted.
Actual Results:  
Files belonging to non-root users are deleted daily (but they should not be!). Files belonging to root are kept, because the default of OWNER_TO_KEEP_IN_TMP defaults to "root".

Expected Results:  
According to the descriptions in /etc/sysconfig/cron , setting the value of MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP = 0 should disable the deletion of old files. Therefore the files belonging to non-root users should remain there indefinitely.

Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2012-05-19 18:42:39 UTC

This is a systemd issue, see bug 721682 for details and workarounds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 721682 ***