How To Install tmpwatch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpwatch on CentOS 7.
What is tmpwatch
The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time. Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp). Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won’t switch filesystems and only removes empty directories and regular files.
We can use yum or dnf to install tmpwatch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tmpwatch.
Install tmpwatch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tmpwatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tmpwatch
Install tmpwatch on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tmpwatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tmpwatch
How To Uninstall tmpwatch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tmpwatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tmpwatch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpwatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.