online quarantine?

[Julian Field]

If you've got one of the Linux distributions of MailScanner, you already
have a "clean_quarantine" cron job in place. All you need to do to enable
it is comment out the
         $disabled = 1;
line right near the top of the script.

And if you haven't already got it, here it is in all its glory.

#!/usr/bin/perl

#
# IMPORTANT NOTE:
#
# Change the next line to 0 instead of 1 to enable this script.
# By default it will be disabled and will not do anything.
#

$disabled = 1;

$quarantine_dir = '/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine';
$days_to_keep   = 30;

exit if $disabled;

# Standardise the format of the directory name
die 'Path for quarantine_dir must be absolute' unless $quarantine_dir =~ /^\//;
$quarantine_dir =~ s/\/$//; # Delete trailing slash

# Now get the content list for the directory.
opendir(QDIR, $quarantine_dir) or die "Couldn't read directory
$quarantine_dir";

# Loop through this list looking for any *directory* which hasn't been
# modified in the last $days_to_keep days.
# Unfortunately this will do nothing if the filesystem is backed up using tar.
while($entry = readdir(QDIR)) {
         next if $entry =~ /^\./;
         $entry = $quarantine_dir . '/' . $entry;
         system("rm -rf $entry") if -d $entry &&
                                    -M $entry > $days_to_keep;
}
closedir(QDIR);

At 15:29 26/08/2003, you wrote:
>S Mohan wrote:
> > Another alternative is
> >
> > find /path/to/quarantine -ctime +7 | xargs rm -rf
> >
>Yes, but that would delete directories that may have more recent
>contents.  On the other hand my original line neglected to consider that
>there may be directories involved.
>
>Thinking a bit more clearly than I was when I originally posted you
>probably also need a -depth in there, and append a /* to the path to avoid
>deleting the quarantine dir itself, plus some conditional stuff to get rid
>of directories.  So...
>
>find /path/to/quarantine/* -ctime +7 -depth \! \( -type d -exec rmdir {}
>';' \) -exec rm -f {} ';'
>
>This does rely on rmdir failing when the directory is not empty, so you'll
>also want to append
>
> >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>once its tested.
>
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Julian Field
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