Bug 742471

Summary:	RFE: allow to specify max age for files to be removed by tmpwatch
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Till Maas <opensource>
Component:	tmpwatch	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Till Maas 2011-09-30 09:20:46 UTC

Description of problem:
I would like to make tmpwatch all files older than 1 day. This requires to edit /etc/cron.dail/tmpwatch directly. It would be nicer to be able to set max age variables in /etc/sysconfing/tmpwatch that are then used by tmpwatch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tmpwatch-2.10.2-1.fc15

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2011-10-04 08:04:00 UTC

Thanks for your report.  I agree with the general sentiment, and I have considered this in the past.

I'm afraid I can't see a way to make the current script configurable enough without making the configuration about as large as the existing script ({TMP,VAR_TMP,MAN}_{TIME,EXCLUDES,FLAGS} is 9 items already, and *_FLAGS doesn't really have much of a semantics).  I think keeping the script editable (and marked %config) is the most reasonable solution.