App to clean temp files, etc?

[ixoye777]

Howdy guys, when I used Windows there was a nifty little free app called Crap Cleaner that I used. It cleaned out all your temp files, browser tracks, recycle bin, etc. Is there something like I can toss on Mandriva? I know how to clean out the places manually one by one but ... = ]

[spinynorman]

In Mandriva Control Centre, select Boot - Set up how the system boots. Click the Advanced tab below the Main options.

Set 'Clean /tmp at each boot'.

 

That will get rid of a lot of stuff. :)

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

Also in the Mandriva Control Centre--> Security & Privacy--> Privacy. That will clear some histories and caches. There's also an app called kleansweep, which uses heuristics to identify deletable files like duplicates, orphan files etc.

Edited January 21, 2008 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

[ianw1974]

tmpwatch is a package that can be installed, and it runs as a scheduled job. So if you leave your system up and running a lot it would run each morning and clear the temporary files.

[Greg2]

The tmpwatch package has been included by default on the last few versions of Mandriva. If you don't have your system on 24/7, you can install anacron. Then anacron will run cron.daily, which will run tmpwatch for you at each boot.

[ixoye777]

Thanks guys, appreciate the help.

 

Is there an app that does a secure deletion of the free space on your drive?

[ianw1974]

You can use shred for secure deletion of files. Alternatively, you can use dd to overwrite the free space but it creates a file, and then you have to delete this file. This can be done for overwritting stuff, you just use similar to this:

 

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/username/tempfile
rm /home/username/tempfile

 

by using the input of /dev/urandom, you're writing random data to tempfile, which is in effect writing random data to the free space you're overwriting. Later, the only file recoverable, would be the tempfile, but would be useless since it's random data.

 

If I'm erasing an empty hard disk, then I use shred by booting a Live CD and running on the drive as /dev/hda or /dev/sda - but you can't do this for free space, since it would completely erase your hard disk regardless of data. dd is better for free space - as my example above.