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On systems which use GNU tar for backups (as an example) the atime of files is being updated on a regular basis and this invalidates the efforts of tmpwatch. I wrote a patch which adds a flag for the option of using mtime to make the decision about deleting the files. I wrote the patch against tmpwatch-1.2 which is why I'm filing this under RH 4.2, but it should apply to newer versions. The patch is coming in a seperate followup. Thanks.
this will be added in the next release (6.1). Thank you for the patch.