tmpwatch/tmpreaper (for Ubuntu) is first thing I though about too - but the vagn has a good point about better keeping the latest report from each server, which justifies using his script.
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 04:17:30 UTC+11, Ken Barber wrote: > > tmpwatch is also a good approach: > http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_tmpwatch.htm. Probably > requires less scripting, and its already on most distros, probably > cleaning your /tmp directories already. > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Dan White <yg...@comcast.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I take back my suggestion. > > LogRotate is not built to handle many little log files with different > names. > > I found out the hard way - I tried to make it work :( > > > > The script by vagn will do the trick. > > > > Another suggestion: put a variable in the line "tail -n +2” in place of > the > > “2” for how-many-files-to-keep+1 -- “2” only keeps one file. Other > folks > > may want to keep more. > > > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Dan White wrote: > > > > How about logrotate ? > > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > > > > Great solution. Simple, effective. Thanks. > > > > On Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:50:32 UTC+1, vagn wrote: > >> > >> On 07/21/2011 08:52 AM, vagn scott wrote: > >> > Thinking about this some more, if you need the reports for dashboard > >> > to work, > >> > then any cleanup script should leave the latest report from any > server, > >> > so that, even if the server has not checked in for a while it won't > >> > disappear. > >> > > >> > Thanks for the question. Clearly I need to revisit this. > >> > > >> > >> So, here is a script that ought to do the job. Not heavily tested yet. > >> Please let me know if you have problems with it. --vagn > >> > >> #! /bin/sh > >> # puppet-reports-stalker > >> # vagn scott, 21-jul-2011 > >> > >> days="+7" # more than 7 days old > >> > >> for d in `find /var/lib/puppet/reports -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d` > >> do > >> find $d -type f -name \*.yaml -mtime $days | > >> sort -r | > >> tail -n +2 | > >> xargs -n50 /bin/rm -f > >> done > >> > >> exit 0 > >> > >> > >> And the updated class. > >> > >> class puppet::clean_reports { > >> > >> file { '/usr/local/bin/puppet-reports-stalker': > >> source => > >> 'puppet:///modules/puppet/puppet-reports-stalker', > >> before => Cron[ 'puppet clean reports' ], > >> mode => 755, > >> owner => root, > >> group => root, > >> } > >> > >> cron { 'puppet clean reports': > >> command => '/usr/local/bin/puppet-reports-stalker', > >> user => root, > >> hour => 21, > >> minute => 22, > >> weekday => 0, > >> } > >> } > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
