Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:32:03 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal Message-ID: <20020304143203.A55603@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020303201759.GA88851@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:17:59PM %2B0000 References: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain> <20020303201759.GA88851@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Mar 03, at 08:17 PM, David Malone wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > 100.clean-disks has no allowance for excluding paths; I would not want > > it to clean core dumps or a.out within $(HOME) directories, for instance. > > It would be relatively easy to add a variable which gave directories > to skip... > > > [SNIP] > > > > It would have bothered me greatly to wake up next week and find these > > listed subdirectories, or any others, missing. > > It will only delete these directories if they are empty and they > haven't been modified in $daily_clean_tmps_days. (You can't check > if they have been accesses as the previous find will have accessed > them.) I'm not sure how much concelation that is ;-) > > ...I'm sure it would be accepted as a patch if you submitted it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35545 > David. Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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