Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:02:00PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500 > Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily > > periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video > > location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more > > little issue. It leaves a lot of empty directories. I could just > > write a cron entry to take care of empty directories, but I'm hoping > > there's something I'm missing and there's a way to remove empty > > directories from the locations specified in daily_clean_tmps_dirs > > They should be deleted automatically, but it's based on when they are > last modified, not just when the last file is removed, so it should take > 14 days in your case. Now that I look at it, you're right. Thanks. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?
On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500 Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily > periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video > location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more > little issue. It leaves a lot of empty directories. I could just > write a cron entry to take care of empty directories, but I'm hoping > there's something I'm missing and there's a way to remove empty > directories from the locations specified in daily_clean_tmps_dirs They should be deleted automatically, but it's based on when they are last modified, not just when the last file is removed, so it should take 14 days in your case. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?
Hello, A bit of backstory...I'm running motion (motion.sourceforge.net) on a machine connected to three analog IR cameras through three bktr cards in order to keep an eye on our vehicles. We've had problems with stereos stolen, tires cut, etc. motion is configured to write files out to the apache22 DocumentRoot, which makes it easy to view the videos. I've even got Apache doing neat things with HTMLTable, FancyIndexing, SuppressRules and CSS to make it not look horrible, but that's besides the point. The cameras write out their videos to subdirs like so: year/month/day/camera-#/hh-mm-ss.avi. This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more little issue. It leaves a lot of empty directories. I could just write a cron entry to take care of empty directories, but I'm hoping there's something I'm missing and there's a way to remove empty directories from the locations specified in daily_clean_tmps_dirs. If there's not, would this be a useful feature to add to the clean-temps daily script? Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
