[Samba] file "time-to-live"

[Brian Cuttler]

You could write something to check file create times and
delete files older than 36 hours, and run if from cron
several times per day.

I'd suggest # find, but it doesn't have the granularity
you are looking for, you could run it at 00:01 and remove
files there where 2 days old.

I did somethign similar on a VMS system I was managing, worked
well until some enterprising student found (I don't believe
they wrote it themselves) a program to reset the time stamp
on their files (which your users may start doing as well, perhaps
using # touch). At which point I started looking for files with
creation dates in the future... many users of the date reset
program wheren't quite as smart as they thought they where.




On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:32:52AM -0300, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There is a way to make files being automatically deleted some time after 
> they have been created?
> I know that, with some scripting wizardry i could achieve this, but i 
> wanna know if samba has this kind of feature.
> 
> I have a temp folder that users insist in use like a backup folder, so i 
> want to files to be deleted 24 hours after they have been created.
> 
> I cannot just delete everything at midnight because this folder is used 
> in full time, so if a user create a file at 23h59, it would be deleted a 
> minute later.
> 
> Sorry for my poor english and tks in advance.
> -- 
> Leonardo Carneiro
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