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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="person">
5 <email>xmw@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Michael Weber</name>
8 <longdescription lang="en">
9 tmpreaper is a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file
10 directories. It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir()
11 across symlinks, and removes files that haven't been accessed in a
12 user-specified amount of time. You can specify a set of files to protect
13 from deletion with a shell pattern. It will not remove files owned by the
14 process EUID that have the `w' bit clear, unless you ask it to, much like
15 `rm -f'. `tmpreaper' will not remove symlinks, sockets, fifos, or special
16 files unless given a command line option enabling it to.
18 WARNING: Please do not run `tmpreaper' on `/'. There are no protections
19 against this written into the program, as that would prevent it from
20 functioning the way you'd expect it to in a `chroot(8)' environment.
22 The daily tmpreaper run can be configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf .