Re: How to enable Debian to automatically clear the tmp directory
Package: tmpreaper
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.10
Replaces: tmpwatch
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.0) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
Conflicts: tmpwatch
Filename: pool/main/t/tmpreaper/tmpreaper_1.6.10_amd64.deb
Size: 45346
MD5sum: aed6f74d97b0c76736054c0501179599
SHA1: 06a0f172078516577a9daa218054e2a6d3ee4b53
SHA256: 921ad12f76a64502facfe064822573393b3d439f587c741d35f825923a0e955d
Description: cleans up files in directories based on their age
This package provides a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file
directories. It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir()
across symlinks, and removes files that haven't been accessed in a
user-specified amount of time. You can specify a set of files to protect
from deletion with a shell pattern. It will not remove files owned by the
process EUID that have the `w' bit clear, unless you ask it to, much like
`rm -f'. `tmpreaper' will not remove symlinks, sockets, fifos, or special
files unless given a command line option enabling it to.
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WARNING: Please do not run `tmpreaper' on `/'. There are no protections
against this written into the program, as that would prevent it from
functioning the way you'd expect it to in a `chroot(8)' environment.
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The daily tmpreaper run can be configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf .
Tag: admin::automation, interface::daemon, role::program, scope::utility, works-with::file
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John Hasler
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