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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help needed with delete script. Post 302768281 by MadeInGermany on Friday 8th of February 2013 08:41:23 AM
Old 02-08-2013
We are running the following cleantmp.sh in production environment:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

max_days=30
case $1 in
[0-9]*)
 max_days=$1
 shift
 ;;
esac

dirs_to_clean=${@:-/tmp}

owner_to_keep="root nobody"

omit=""
for i in $owner_to_keep
do
 omit="$omit ( ! -user $i )"
done

for dir in $dirs_to_clean
do
 [ -d $dir ] &&
 cd $dir &&
 find . -depth \! -type d \( -mtime +$max_days -o -mtime -0 \) \( -atime +$max_days -ctime +5 -o -ctime +$max_days -atime +5 -o -type l \) $omit -exec rm -f {} \; -o -type d -empty $omit -mtime +$max_days -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null
 sleep 1
done

exit 0
# We assume that a full backup (where atime or ctime changes) happens less often than every 5 days.
# We cd first, so there is a good chance that a too long directory path can be accessed
# if -empty is unsupported, replace it by -links 2
# A just emptied directory is deleted immediately or after another max_days
# -mtime -0 detects files with a future time stamp (were extracted from an obscure archive)

A nightly root crontab entry (crontab -e; crontab -l) could be
Code:
59 23 * * * /path/to/cleantmp.sh 10 /path/to/clean

You can add more /2ndpath/to/clean /3rdpath/to/clean ...
Nightly means, the remaining files are never older than 10+2=12 days.
For safety, frequently read files are not deleted.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 02-08-2013 at 11:21 AM..
 

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asadmin-delete-domain

asadmin-delete-domain(1AS)					   User Commands					asadmin-delete-domain(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-delete-domain, delete-domain - deletes the givendomain

SYNOPSIS

       delete-domain [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--domaindir install_dir/domains] domain_name

       delete-domain  deletes  the  specified  domain.	The domain must already exist and must be stopped. This command is supported in local mode
       only.

OPTIONS

       --domaindir	       directory where the domain is to be deleted. If specified, path must be accessible in the filesystem. If not speci-
			       fied, the domain in the default install_dir/domains directory is deleted.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

OPERANDS

       domain_name	       name of the domain. Must be a unique name.

       Example 1: Using delete-domain

       asadmin> delete-domain sampleDomain
       deleted domain sampleDomain successfully

       Where: the sampleDomain domain is deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin-create-domain(1AS), asadmin-start-domain(1AS), asadmin-stop-domain(1AS), asadmin-list-domains(1AS)

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