[Samba] HowTo clear a share using smbclient ?

[Michael Heydon]

This seems a bit Rube Goldberg to me, you have direct access to the file 
system, why not use it?

If you are really worried that rm -rf /full/path/to/directory might 
somehow morph into rm -rf / you could do something like:
su nobody -c rm -rf /full/path/to/directory
In the event that it did try to delete / it would be limited to files 
writable by "nobody".

I understand being cautious around rm -rf especially when running as 
root, but I think testing and being careful are a better solution than 
using samba to limit access.

Jon Wilson wrote:
> Good Evening,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows how to clear a share on a server using
> a command line interface ?
>
> Basically I have a [public] share that I would like cleared down every
> night, I've worked out that
>
> smbclient //apps-srv/public -N -c "del *" >
> /var/log/samba_public_delete.log 2>&1
>
> seems to go most of the way to doing what I want - however it doesn't
> delete subdirectories. Is there any easy way to accomplish this ?
>
>
> I prefer the idea of running this rather than a 'rm -rf' from the
> command line as I can script this and as it's a public share the
> possibility of deleting anything else is pretty minimal.
> I've seen a few examples of wayward rm command in crons to be wary of
> doing that !
>
> Any ideas how I could accomplish this ?
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Jon
>