Clean up script for tmp files

[Remco Barendse]

I slightly modified the script, if i remove "-maxdepth 1"  from opts the 
script completes without errors and i included /tmp.
However, the find command doesn't find the files. Even when i set days to 
1, i still find files that are 3-4 days old.

When i do :
   find /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/ -name 'tmp.*' 
it finds all the files, when i add "-mtime +1" it doesn't find anything 
anymore.

Clues anyone?  Could it be that mtime doesn't work on zero byte files?

Thanks!



On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Jethro R Binks wrote:

> I've run this nightly for years which may help:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ##
> ## MailScanner, SpamAssassin and so on tend to leave files around, so this
> ## will clean up any more than $days old
> ##
> ## v2.1
>
> # Defined in MailScanner.conf, "Incoming Work Dir":
> MSWORK=/mail/scanner/incoming
> # Defined in MailScanner.conf, "SpamAssassin Temporary Dir":
> #SATMP=/tmp
> SATMP=$MSWORK/SpamAssassin-Temp
> # Defined in clamd.conf, "TemporaryDirectory":
> CLAMAVTMP=/var/tmp
>
> days="2"
>
> opts="-mtime +$days -maxdepth 1"
>
> find $SATMP -name '.spamassassin*' $opts | xargs rm -rf
> find $SATMP -name 'update_spamassassin*' $opts | xargs rm -rf
> find $MSWORK -name '[0-9]*' -type d $opts | xargs rm -rf
> find $CLAMAVTMP -name 'packlist.*' -type f $opts | xargs rm -rf
> find $CLAMAVTMP -name 'checkholddir.*' -type f $opts | xargs rm -rf
> find $CLAMAVTMP -name 'clamav-*' $opts | xargs rm -rf
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Remco Barendse wrote:
>
>> I know the subject was discussed on the mailing list several times but i
>> didn't find the ultimate solution.
>>
>> Does anyone have a super duper cleanup script for all the files in :
>>
>> /tmp
>> for files like  tmp.DPhoj31724
>>
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
>> for files like  .spamassassin3805xUDKuUtmp
>>                  MailScanner.0aOrDx
>>                  tmp.IKiiOy6683
>>
>> They are seriously clogging up my filesystem and slowing down the system.
>>
>> I tried to script something based on the age of the file but it didn't
>> work (maybe because most are zero byte files).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Remco
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