# Installer tmpwatch avec Homebrew, dnf, Nix, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de tmpwatch pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:tmpwatch
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tmpwatch
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install tmpwatch
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tmpwatch
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install tmpwatch
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: tmpwatch from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:tmpwatch
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.11
- **Résumé source:** Find and remove files not accessed in a specified time
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://pagure.io/tmpwatch>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- tmpwatch (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.11
## Historique du projet et usages

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.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

### Chronologie

- 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.

### Sources

- <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


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - tmpwatch: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tm/tmpwatch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - tmpwatch - 2.11-31.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: tmpwatch from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed | https://pagure.io/tmpwatch
- zypper - tmpwatch - 2.11-7.9: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: tmpwatch from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Watches file system activity, such as /tmp files | https://pagure.io/tmpwatch


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tmpwatch.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/tmpwatch.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph