[Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: how to automatically clean /tmp

[Walter Cazzola]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Jon LaBadie wrote:

>> I still have to rid off of one of these two tmpfs

>>   tmpfs  1633640  0 1633640 0% /run/user/989
>>   tmpfs  1633640 20 1633620 1% /run/user/526

>> I think I have to keep one of them since it is associated to my id (526)
>> but I can't imagine what the other is for and how to avoid its creation.
>> Googling didn't help much.

> Don't remove either one.  They are managed by the system.
> They are taking no disk space (unless memory becomes full
> and it will then use swap).  They are not even taking
> significant memory.  In fact 989 is using 0 memory.
> Why are you so intent on removing things working as
> they should?

> Probably user 989 is your login display manager.
> Check who 989 is in /etc/passwd (grep 989 /etc/passwd).
> On my system is it "lightdm".  I have a /run/user/966.
> My 966 is "sddm", my display manager.

Indeed you are right, this is sddm, I was thinking it was something
related to some other users I dismissed but it seems it is not the case.

Thanks for the grep suggestion I couldn't image it was something really
in use.

Walter

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