Re: Bug#3114: cron.daily/standard script

[Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

    Michael> Steve Greenland writes:
    >> Ok, I'll take it. I'll add the filereaper script to the package: alhtough
    >> it may not require cron, it's a traditional cron-like function. If
    >> we remove the find style stuff from cron, it needs to be
    >> replaced.  (If somebody else *really* wants it, let me know.)

    Michael> I hope you know perl since filereaper is still in perl4 syntax. :-)

    Michael> Please make sure filereaper does what we need. In my opinion a save-rm might
    Michael> be a good alternative (see filereaper comments for details).

    Michael> Would it be a good idea to add a line like

    Michael> find / -xdev -type f -name core -atime 7 -exec /bin/rm {} \;

    Michael> to /etc/crontab?

I dont think so, I have lots of core files around for
debugging. Perhaps just mailing a list of them to root might be
better.

alvar

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