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/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch script

Can anybody help me to understand the following tmpwatch script...

Code:

flags=-umc

/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix \

-x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp

/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" 720 /var/tmp

for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do

if [ -d "$d" ]; then

/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -f 720 "$d"

fi

done

While googling for tmpwatch I found that by default this script will be executed daily and will remove tmp files older than 10 days ... But i can see two <hour> options 240 ( 10 days) & 720 (30 days) in this script... So where can I edit/change so that default ( 10 days ) can be changed to something else ??

Also what does "-x" option do ?

Why don't you change 240 for something else ?

-x is an entry to be excluded from the clean up operation.
man tmpwatch

for d in /tmp/aaa /tmp/bkk /tmp/bbb /tmp/ccc; do
if [ -d "$d" ]; then
/usr/bin/tmpwatch -f 720 "$d"
fi
done

would this remove the folders aaa bbb and ccc or their content?

Hi

It will remove directory contents, not the directory.