Re: Automatically delete files

I think the "last modified" stamp is good enough, because nothing is going to change the files once they are created.
You will have to edit /etc/crontab and insert your script there. Alernatively you can just let your script run in a loop and let it sleep a day.

while (1)
{
  #do stuff
  sleep (24*60*60);
}
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holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^2: Automatically delete files by data64 (Chaplain) on Aug 02, 2005 at 15:03 UTC
Alernatively you can just let your script run in a loop and let it sleep a day. The only issue with this is, if the server is rebooted or that process dies for whatever reason. You will have to manually re-start it when and if you do notice that it is no longer running.	[reply]
Re^2: Automatically delete files by fishbot_v2 (Chaplain) on Aug 02, 2005 at 15:42 UTC
If you do this (loop with a long sleep), don't forget that you will have to update `$^T` in order for `-M` to return relevant values: `# update basetime: $^T = time();` [download] or else you won't discover any new expired files after the initial run.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Automatically delete files by MonkPaul (Friar) on Aug 02, 2005 at 14:48 UTC
Yes, thanks mate. I didnt think of that but seems like a good solution.	[reply]