[techtalk] Looking for a script

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:45:37AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Keith Barringer thought:
> Some time ago I posted a question here regarding FTP
> servers.  From that I picked out ProFTPd and it has
> been doing a wonderful job ever since.
> 
> The system has a limited hard drive area and I am
> looking for a script/program that I could run to
> delete files after they have been on the box for a
> length of time.  The easier to configure, the better
> and I only need it to run on the subdirectories of the
> FTP folder.
> 

The easiest one is a script run by cron.daily (ie once per day) to delete
anything X days old (Doing the first-time delete of anything older than
X days is left as an exercise for the reader).  Goes like this:

find $FTP_ROOT (-ctime | -atime) $X -exec rm [-f] {} \;

In fact, you could put that directly in your crontab assuming you
substitute actual values for $FTP_ROOT and $X

Conor
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