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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find Oldest file in a directory tree Post 97661 by Perderabo on Wednesday 1st of February 2006 11:02:54 AM
Old 02-01-2006
Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh

touch -t $(($(date "+%Y") + 1))$(date "+%m%d%H%M") notfound
OLDEST=notfound
find . -type f | while read f ; do
        [[ $f -ot $OLDEST ]] && OLDEST=$f
done
echo oldest file is $OLDEST
rm notfound
exit 0

 

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rlm_always(5)							 FreeRADIUS Module						     rlm_always(5)

NAME
rlm_always - FreeRADIUS Module DESCRIPTION
The rlm_always module provides a simple way to "always" return a value during the processing of a configuration section. The module does nothing other than return a configured value. The main configuration item to be aware of is: rcode This module will always return with the rcode specified. The default, if none specified is: fail (RLM_MODULE_FAIL). The valid options are: reject RLM_MODULE_REJECT fail RLM_MODULE_FAIL ok RLM_MODULE_OK handled RLM_MODULE_HANDLED invalid RLM_MODULE_INVALID userlock RLM_MODULE_USERLOCK notfound RLM_MODULE_NOTFOUND noop RLM_MODULE_NOOP updated RLM_MODULE_UPDATED CONFIGURATION
modules { ... always ok { rcode = ok } ... } ... authorize { ... redundant { sql1 # try to find the user in sql1 sql2 # try to find the user in sql2 ok # if still not found, it's OK. } ... } SECTIONS
authorization, authentication, postauthentication, preaccounting, accounting, preproxy, postproxy FILES
/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf SEE ALSO
radiusd(8), radiusd.conf(5) AUTHOR
Chris Parker, cparker@segv.org 3 February 2004 rlm_always(5)
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