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tmpwatch mit Homebrew, dnf, Nix, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für tmpwatch in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install tmpwatch

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install tmpwatch

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · tmpwatch · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#tmpwatch

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/tm/tmpwatch/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install tmpwatch

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · tmpwatch · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Find and remove files not accessed in a specified time

Projektlinks

Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

tmpwatch

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

tmpwatch is a small Red Hat-originated system administration utility for recursively deleting files that have not been accessed for a configured period. Its historical niche is simple, cron-friendly hygiene for temporary directories such as /tmp.

Projektgeschichte

The upstream man page carries Red Hat copyright years from 1997 through 2009 and lists Red Hat authors including Erik Troan, Preston Brown, Nalin Dahyabhai, and Miloslav Trmac. That places tmpwatch in the older Linux distribution tooling tradition: focused utilities shipped by distributions to solve recurring operational problems with minimal ceremony.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 technical notes still documented tmpwatch in 2011 as an updated package for RHEL 6, and Fedora package metadata describes the same temporary-directory cleanup role. In this batch input, the package is also present through Homebrew, dnf, Nix, and zypper names, showing that the utility survived outside its original Red Hat context as a portable admin tool.

Wie es verwendet wird

tmpwatch is normally run against one or more directories with an age threshold, commonly from cron or equivalent scheduled maintenance. Its safety details matter to administrators: the man page documents race-condition checks, avoiding filesystem crossings, ignoring symlinks in cleaned directories, and using atime by default with options for mtime and ctime.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package-manager users, tmpwatch is interesting because it represents the pre-systemd era of distribution-specific housekeeping tools: tiny, scriptable, predictable, and packaged under the same name across several Unix-like ecosystems.

Zeitleiste

1997-2009: Upstream man page copyright range records Red Hat maintenance of tmpwatch.
2009: The upstream man page is dated 2009-10-15.
2011: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 technical notes documented a tmpwatch bug-fix update.

Related projects

cron and rm are referenced by the upstream man page as related commands in the cleanup workflow.
Distribution package metadata positions tmpwatch as a filesystem and temporary-file maintenance tool.

Quellen

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/6.2_technical_notes/tmpwatch
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/tmpwatch/tmpwatch/index.html
https://pagure.io/tmpwatch/raw/master/f/tmpwatch.8
input.json source_facts.package-manager

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`tmpwatch`	Executable	indexiertes Executable	Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-08-03

Manager-Version2.11

Manager aktualisiert

lokale Datenunbekannt

Upstreamnicht verfügbar

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:tmpwatch
Version	2.11
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://pagure.io/tmpwatch
Bottle	nicht erfasst
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

tmpwatch

nix profile install nixpkgs#tmpwatch

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Tmpwatch

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tm/tmpwatch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

dnf95%

tmpwatch 2.11-31.fc45

A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed

https://pagure.io/tmpwatch

sudo dnf install tmpwatch

License: GPL-2.0-only
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: tmpwatch
4 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Tmpwatch

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: tmpwatch from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

tmpwatch 2.11-7.9

Watches file system activity, such as /tmp files