Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:17:59 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Periodic scripts too liberal Message-ID: <20020303201759.GA88851@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020303111559.A48593@sheol.localdomain>
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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 - I'm sure it would be accepted as a patch if you submitted it. > 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 ;-) David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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