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[Paride Legovini <mp+460680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2024-02-16 I created a 29-days old test file in one of the cloud workers:

$ touch -d "29 days ago" /tmp/I-am-an-old-file

The machine has this tmpfile conf:

e /tmp 1777 root root 30d

however the 3 days later the file did not get deleted. Checking timestamps I found:

buntu@juju-7f2275-prod-proposed-migration-environment-2:~$ stat /tmp/I-am-an-old-file
  File: /tmp/I-am-an-old-file
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: fc11h/64529d	Inode: 94          Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  ubuntu)   Gid: ( 1000/  ubuntu)
Access: 2024-01-18 16:55:36.354981825 +0000
Modify: 2024-01-18 16:55:36.354981825 +0000
Change: 2024-02-16 16:55:36.350943134 +0000

so something updated the atime of that file, and as a consequence it didn't get deleted. This is consistent with what Steve mentioned in comment 8 of LP: #2019026.

To make this change useful we have to figure out what is touching files.
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