Do I need to enable it this way? I am running Centos 7
systemctl enable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
What would be the implications?
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How to enable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service?
I run ‘systemctl enable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service’ but with error:
The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl…
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–clean: If this option is passed, all files and directories with an age parameter configured will be cleaned up.
May I know what is an ‘age parameter’?
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
clears/tmp
before shutdown./tmp
contains temporary files that some programs need, but do not expect them to be persisted across reboots.In some cases,
/tmp
is mounted as atmpfs
filesystem which is stored entirely in RAM and is automatically cleared on reboot. However, that is not the case in the CentOS 7 image so you will need to enablesystemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
in order to have/tmp
cleared on shutdown.