Clean up script for tmp files

[Kevin Kobb]

Hello,

It would probably be more efficient to use the find "-delete" action 
rather than "xargs rm -rf", but either should work.

On a side note, does anybody have plans to carve out an "old style" 
MailScanner tarball with the fixes from GitHub? i.e. a new 4.8xx release?

Thanks

On 2/15/2014 7:17 AM, Jethro R Binks wrote:
> My script was written for FreeBSD.  If you're using a different operating system, you'll need to read the manual page for your 'find' command and modify it accordingly.
>
>> On 15 Feb 2014, at 09:08, Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to> wrote:
>>
>> 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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