Re: /etc/cron.daily/man

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

>>>>> "Gerry" == Gerry Jensen <gerry@blue.intele.net> writes:

Hi Gerry,

    Gerry> /etc/cron.daily/man which comes with the man package reads:

    Gerry> --
    Gerry> # expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
    Gerry> find /var/catman -type f -name '*[1-9nlop].gz' -atime +168 | xargs rm -f

    Gerry> # expunge old catman pages which are older than one month
    Gerry> find /var/catman -type f -name '*[1-9nlop].gz' -mtime +720 | xargs rm -f

    Gerry> exit 0
    Gerry> --

    Gerry> The man page for find says that -atime will find files whose last access 
    Gerry> was n*24 hours ago.  So, if I am not very confused (quite probable), the 
    Gerry> "-atime +168" above will only delete files which have not been accessed 
    Gerry> for 168 days, not one week as the comment says it is intended to do.  

    Gerry> Likewise, the "-mtime +720" will delete files older than 720 days, not 
    Gerry> one month as its comment states.

Yes this is an old mistake, it has been fixed in the development tree
for a long time. Below is a copy of the current version of this file
for anyone that wants to install it. Notice that this version deletes
all .gz files in /var/catman.

= 8< ======= /etc/cron.daily/man =============================
#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: cron.daily,v 1.4 1996/02/17 16:09:20 alvar Exp $
#

# expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
/usr/bin/nice find /var/catman -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f

# expunge old catman pages which are older than one month
/usr/bin/nice find /var/catman -type f -name '*.gz' -mtime +30 -print | xargs rm -f

exit 0
= 8< =========================================================


alvar

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