program to clean up temporary dirs (/tmp /var/tmp)

[samureye]

Hello,

I'm looking for a program (not fussy on what it's written in) that will clean out temporary directories/files, taking into consideration the file/directories'

age (atime, ctime or mtime)
type of file (socket, file, directory, symlink)
if the file is in use
if the files' uid does not resolve
if the file is a symlink, is it 'dangling'

Does anyone know of any programs out there that would achieve this?! If not, I might have to write my own!

Thanks

[Chris W]

Write an rc or cron script built around what you find here:

[samureye]

Thanks Chris.

I was hoping there was some programs already out there that do the trick. I have a perl script that does the job.. just wanted to know if there is something out there that is better.

[ozric100]

emerge -s tmpwatch

I don't know if its still masked.(at work XP-pro.. barf). I cron it everyday or so. Its been fine for me.

[pjp]

Some more info on tmpwatch and cleaning tmp dirs.
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[samureye]

Thanks for the assistance guys