topic Re: Remove older than 2 weeks in Operating System - Linux

Remove older than 2 weeks

Qcheck — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:56:48 GMT

How can I schedule the cron job where it purges the /tmp directory files older than two weeks?

Thanks

Re: Remove older than 2 weeks

Oviwan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:15:53 GMT

Hey

something like that:
find /tmp -mtime +14 -exec rm {}\;

Regards

Re: Remove older than 2 weeks

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:59:02 GMT

Hi:

Run this :

# find /tmp -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

This will remove *files* from the '/tmp' directory that are older than 14-days based upon their last-modified timestamp ('mtime').

To create a crontab entry to run at 23:30 hours every day, add this to your crontab:

# 30 23 * * * find /tmp -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Remove older than 2 weeks

Qcheck — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:40:56 GMT

Thank you James and owivan... I really appreciate your help. I just setup in cron. Thanks again.

Re: Remove older than 2 weeks

Stuart Browne — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:21:29 GMT

You might also want to see if your system is already running a scheduled job called 'tmpwatch'.

On a Redhat system, this is run from '/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch', and has a line similar to this in it:

/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp

(Note: It may have some '-x ' excludes on it to ignore X windows sockets).

This does basically what you are after, but for files older than 10 days. Tweaking 240 down to 48 would also do what you are after.

Re: Remove older than 2 weeks

Stuart Browne — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:22:23 GMT

Oops, not down to 48.. Up it to 336..