[Samba] Purge Trash Fileserver

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Dario Lesca via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 25/04/2017 alle 09.25 -0300, Carlos A. P. Cunha via
> samba ha scritto:
>> Hello
>> My fileserver is a samba 4.5.4, in Ubuntu 14.04, is all ok.
>> My question is,
>>
>> Have the recycle bin enabled, and would like a way to rotate the
>> files,
>> already have something today that is via find
>>
>>
>> Find /mnt/samba -depth -mtime +30 -print -delete
>>
>>
>> This works however, it will delete the files inside the destination
>> with
>> more than 30 days, but this more than 30 days is not when it went to
>> the
>> bin but the date of the file, which does not change when it is
>> deleted .
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> File with date of 2015, was deleted now in 2017, when run the find
>> it
>> will erase this file, even if it was deleted on the same day.
>>
>>
>> What I would like is to see an alternative to find or when it goes
>> to
>> the bin it is changed (date) to find it to be correct.
>>
>> Any idea ?
>
>
> This is what I do for clear my trash:
>
> # echo '/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --dirmtime --atime --force $[24*30] /u/samba/cestino/' > /etc/cron.daily/cestino
> # chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/cestino
>
> The tricks is '--atime', then if you want still use your command with
> find, you can try '-atime' find option.

Fortunately, many of us turn mount our filesystems with "-noatime" for
performance reasons. Not having to write atime to the directory
information every time you access a file can seriously improve
performance for some applications.

> Hope this help
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Dario Lesca
> (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 25 Workstation)
>
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