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Bug#1063880: ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them



On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:21:46 -0600, Peter Hyman wrote:

> * Package name : tmpwatch

> Description : tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a
> specific time and deletes them
> 
> The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and
> removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time.
> tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for
> temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp).

This sounds very much like tmpreaper:

Description-en: 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.
 .
 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.
 .
 The daily tmpreaper run can be configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf .


Could you maybe say a bit about the differences?
 

Cheers,
gregor

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