# Installer tmpreaper avec Homebrew, apt, MacPorts Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de tmpreaper pour les workflows d'agents IA. ## installation ```sh sudo av install brew:tmpreaper ``` Commandes d'installation supplémentaires: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install tmpreaper ``` Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install tmpreaper ``` Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/tmpreaper/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install tmpreaper ``` Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: tmpreaper from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## Faits du paquet - **Clé du paquet:** brew:tmpreaper - **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.6.18 - **Résumé source:** Clean up files in directories based on their age - **Page d'accueil:** - **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## exécutables - tmpreaper (alias) ## Comportement d'installation - Bouteille: non disponible ## Version et fraîcheur - page générée: 2026-08-03 - version du gestionnaire: 1.6.18 ## Historique du projet et usages tmpreaper is a long-lived Debian system-maintenance utility for removing old files from temporary directories based on access, modification, or change time. ### Historique du projet The Debian manpage describes tmpreaper as a tool that recursively removes files and empty directories that have not been accessed for a specified period, especially in temporary holding areas such as /tmp. It emphasizes security behavior: avoiding symlink traversal, avoiding chdir(".."), not switching file systems, and stopping after a default runtime limit to reduce race-condition exposure. The manpage names Karl M. Hegbloom as author, says tmpreaper is mostly based on tmpwatch 1.2/1.4 by Erik Troan, and lists Paul Slootman as the Debian maintainer. The Debian changelog shows active maintenance going back to the late 1990s and continuing through the 2025 1.6.18 release. ### Historique d'adoption tmpreaper is historically rooted in Debian administration rather than in a GitHub-first CLI culture. Debian's package page places it in the admin section and documents the daily run configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf. The supplied source facts show availability through Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and MacPorts. That spread reflects its appeal to users who want an established temp-file cleanup tool on both Linux distributions and macOS package ecosystems. ### Modes d'utilisation System administrators use tmpreaper to clean directories such as /tmp with explicit age thresholds and protect patterns. The manpage documents dry-run behavior, verbose output, shell-command-style reporting of deletions, ctime and mtime modes, symlink handling, runtime limits, and protect patterns. For package-focused users, tmpreaper is the classic installable answer to a recurring housekeeping problem: clean old temporary files without writing an ad hoc find command for every host, while retaining options shaped by multi-user Unix security concerns. ### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent tmpreaper is significant because it embodies the older Debian package model: a small C utility, a manpage, a conffile, cron integration, and decades of changelog-driven maintenance. It is not trendy, but it is exactly the kind of durable system utility package nerds notice. Its history is also a reminder that temp cleanup is security-sensitive. The changelog records fixes for directory traversal, bind-mount/race-condition issues, systemd PrivateTmp protection, default ignore patterns, and reproducible-build concerns. ### Chronologie - 1998: Debian changelog entries show tmpreaper 1.4.x maintained by Karl M. Hegbloom. - 2001: Version 1.5.0 added autoconf support and portability work for Solaris and NetBSD. - 2002: Version 1.6.0 added ctime handling for Samba-share scenarios. - 2003: Version 1.6.1 made cron execution opt-in through /etc/tmpreaper.conf and added runtime limiting. - 2019: Version 1.6.14 fixed CVE-2019-3461-related bind-mount race-condition behavior. - 2025: Version 1.6.18 was accepted into Debian unstable and migrated to testing. ### Related projects - tmpwatch is the older cleanup utility named by the tmpreaper manpage as the basis for tmpreaper. - Debian cron and /etc/tmpreaper.conf are the package integration points documented by Debian. ### Sources - - - - - input.source_facts.package-manager ## Notes de sécurité narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Linux: /etc/tmpreaper.conf ## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets - Debian apt - tmpreaper - 1.6.18: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: tmpreaper from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | cleans up files in directories based on their age - Ubuntu apt - tmpreaper - 1.6.17+nmu1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: tmpreaper from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | cleans up files in directories based on their age - MacPorts - tmpreaper: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/tmpreaper/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tmpreaper.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/tmpreaper.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph