/tmp files

[jd1008]

On 02/19/2015 10:40 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 02/19/2015 11:04 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> On 02/19/2015 09:56 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:46:31AM +1030, Tim wrote:
>>>>> Neither, it's a function of it being on tmpfs and being rebooted -
>>>>> it's not persistent. Whereas /var/tmp is managed by
>>>>> systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer.
>>>> And on those systems that are left running 24 hours a day?
>>> Note that systemd-tmpfiles also cleans /tmp in its default
>>> configuration. See /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf, which contains (with
>>> some other stuff):
>>>
>>>     d /tmp 1777 root root 10d
>>>     d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d
>>>
>>>
>> What about
>>
>> /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
>> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
>> /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98systemd/dracut-tmpfiles.conf
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
>>
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
>>
>> Which of these should be disabled in order to make my /tmp files to
>> survive reboot?
>>
> Generally it is the *.conf file which needs to be created/edited to
> change the default configuration settings for services. So it looks like
> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf is your friend for this objective.
>
> 'man systemd-tmpfiles' will help you with more information
>
Thank you Matthew, Thank you Rejy for your help.
All is well now.
systemctl mask tmp.mount
  and
vi /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
where I commented out those 2 lines outlibed by Matthew
did the trick.

Will this change survive the updates?