I. Oppenheim writes: | On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: | | > An hour later, someone else's | > request handles the job of purging the old files. | | Why don't you use a cron job for that?
Because it doesn't always work. Over the years that the Tune Finder has existed, the MIT machine it's running on has been three different actual machines, with many more OS releases than that. At times, I've found that I don't have permission to use cron. It's also run on a couple of home machines (where I always have permission), and on a few other machines (mostly Toby Rider's, where permissions have also varied). Now granted, I can eventually get cron working. But this can take time, and often depends on someone else changing the permissions. When faced with the immediate problem of a disk filling up, it's a lot easier to do it in my own scripts. They always have access to their own tmp directory, and can always delete the files. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
