I see a number of directories in /tmp which are not being automatically deleted, including both those created by me and those created by the system: drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 16:05 keyring-3KnOaK drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 14:59 virtual-cbeland.9OvYkc drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 14:57 virtual-cbeland.qn10JD drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 13:42 virtual-cbeland.mBbfiz drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 13:07 virtual-cbeland.k2dwXp drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 26 12:36 emacs500 drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 25 19:26 keyring-7Cf0Jc drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 25 15:09 virtual-cbeland.EHhxEJ drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 25 10:24 virtual-cbeland.B5dk5N drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 25 09:57 virtual-cbeland.XtIfbG drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 22 11:02 virtual-cbeland.HMDzvH drwxrwxr-x. 4 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 21 14:13 2 drwxrwxr-x. 3 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 21 13:04 __MACOSX drwxr-xr-x. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 21 13:04 full drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 20 09:53 virtual-cbeland.YlyRpp drwx------. 4 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 19 10:23 haze-OSOIdq drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 18 09:49 virtual-cbeland.7Pnr88 drwx------. 2 cbeland cbeland 4096 Jul 16 15:57 virtual-cbeland.sAYZh3 These are very old; I have logged out and rebooted many times since July; nothing on the system can possibly be accessing these directories. I checked a few randomly; they only have subdirectories, no actual files. tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15.x86_64
Thanks for your report. This is already tracked in #468670 ; a program is accessing these files, and we've so far not been able to identify it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468670 ***