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Old 03-01-2006
Delete old home directories

I have a script that deletes obselete users from /etc/passwd then moves their home directories to another location. After 30 days, I need to delete the home directories that were moved to the new location. I would appreciate any ideas on how to delete the directories after the 30 days?
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Old 03-01-2006
How about:
sleep 2529000
rm -rf /archive/$ouser

Just kidding. Smilie Seriously, just have a second script that runs once a month which searches your archive directory and deletes old subdirectories.
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Old 03-02-2006
Thanks Perderabo.
 
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