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- From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Emptying recycler on logout
- Keywords: recycler
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.143715.21972@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 14:37:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.201219.4040@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <1992Dec4.201219.4040@midway.uchicago.edu> janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent) writes:
- >
- >Our users can't seem to get the hang of emptying the recycler. I beg for
- >them to delete files to relieve the disk space crunch on our Sun server,
- >and while they happily drop old files into the recycler, I can't quite
- >train them to emptying it. So I'd like to automagically purge the
- >recycler when the user logs out of their NeXT session, but I don't know
- >how to proceed. Any ideas?
- >
- >In a similar vein, is there a way to automate compacting a user's mail?
- >
- Maybe my age is showing, but rather than screw around with logout hooks,
- why not just use cron to run find to rm any trash older than some number
- of days. Run it at 0300 or something like that.
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- I don't know what form mail compression takes, but if there is a command
- line program that will do it you can run that from cron too.
-
- You can use cron to run a script to do both.
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