Comment 5 for bug 2019026

The Ubuntu QA team encountered an issue where our autopkgtest-cloud-workers in the prod-proposed-migration environment ran out of free space in /tmp because these are production servers which are rebooted very infrequently. Due to some bug in the autopkgtest-cloud or autopkgtest code there were left over log files from late November, December, and January in /tmp. These log files can be quite large and our 200G /tmp partition ended up being full quite regularly.

I too would expect /tmp to be cleaned up regularly and remember the days when it was.

It would be interesting to see what other server administrators do about cleaning up /tmp. Does everyone modify /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf ?