freebsd-ports/sysutils/stmpclean/pkg-descr

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The utility stmpclean securely deletes old files from directories
such as /tmp and /var/tmp.
Combining find and rm (possibly with xargs) for this purpose allows
a local attacker to delete any file on the system. It is a security
hole.
Using one of the nifty floating around Perl scripts for this purpose
is dangerous: when you have an attack they have a tendency to behave
like forking bombs, making matters much worse.
WWW: http://shlang.com/stmpclean/