Subject: Re: Questions about Network Trash
From: jeff b (jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 14:33:02 EDT
On Mon, 22 May 2000 Denise Zasowski wrote:
> Has anyone written a script to empty the Network Trash Folder from
> multiple user directories?
>
> We seem to have many user accounts containing orphan trash that would
> benefit from a script rather than a manual search and destroy mission. I
> searched the archives, but didn't find a reference to a script. Several
> people endorsed removing it with rm -rf. Is this a permanent remove or
> does the directory get recreated? If it is a permanent remove, will this
> prevent any orphan trash from accumulating on the server accounts
> altogether?
I would suggest a cron script to do that every evening, using find piped to
rm.
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jeff b
system administrator
university communications
university of connecticut
jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu
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