On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
I suppose if I was using a consistent naming scheme for the temp
files, or placed them in a subdirectory, I could use an hourly cron
job to make sure they were cleaned up. That approach has always
bothered me - but I don't know of a better one.
Anyone have any suggestions on alternate implementations I might
pursue?
Sure, you can use find to expire the old files.
find $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete
That deletes all the spam over a week old in my spam folder.
I run that once a day out of a crontab:
11 4 * * * find $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete
(run at 0411 everyday)
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