COPYRIGHT
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This package was originally an `alien', debianized by the alien
program by converting the GPLed RPMS Package `tmpwatch-1.2'
on Thu, 13 Nov 1997 02:16:28 -0800.
Authors: Erik Troan, Karl M. Hegbloom, Paul Slootman
Copyright 1997 Erik Troan
Copyright 1997, 1998 Karl M. Hegbloom
Copyright 1998-2019 Paul Slootman
tmpreaper is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2, found in the file:
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
on Debian systems, or at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Please read the changelog.
The original `tmpwatch-1.2' was downloaded from ftp.redhat.com by
karlheg@inetarena.com.
(You can find the current repository at
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tmpwatch)
Thank You, Erik Troan. This program was sorely needed. We always
appreciate the things you provide for the Linux community. I could
not have even begun to write a program like this one from scratch.
Without the initial program to build on, it would not have been
possible. I've learned a lot from this experience.
karlheg: Sun, Dec 7, 1997:
I am renaming this program from `tmpwatch' to `tmpreaper' to split
away from RedHat, who released a `tmpwatch-1.4' with RedHat v5.0 that
had zero of the patches I sent for `1.2-1.4'. They made one small
patch:
--- tmpwatch-1.2.c Mon Nov 17 21:16:37 1997
+++ tmpwatch-1.4/tmpwatch.c Thu Nov 6 13:58:34 1997
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
message(LOG_VERBOSE, "removing directory %s\n", ent->d_name);
if (!(flags & FLAGS_TEST)) {
- if (!(flags & FLAGS_ALLFILES)) {
+ if (flags & FLAGS_ALLFILES) {
if (rmdir(ent->d_name)) {
message(LOG_ERROR, "failed to rmdir %s: %s\n",
dirname, ent->d_name);
This does not reflect any of the changes I made and submitted to
them, including the bug that prompted me to begin working on
`tmpwatch' to begin with. The `--test' option was broken. The
getopt loop fills a variable with some flags to be passed to
cleanDirectory, but when that function is called for the first time,
he passes a 0 as the flags argument.
In main(), it goes:
- cleanupDirectory(argv[optind], killTime, 0);
+ cleanupDirectory (argv[optind], killTime, flags);
