Mircea Draghici wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> thx for the reply. Unfortunately I have not used scripts and crontab so
> far. If you can give additional help I would truly appreciate it.
>
> most of my space seems to have been taken by the antivirus and cache
> /var/amavis /var/log/cache
>
> thankx for all the help
>
>
> *Mircea Draghici*
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: efw-use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:19:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Efw-user] disk usage
>
> Mircea Draghici wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I have recently noticed that our EFW box has started to run out of
> > space. It seems that there are a lof of files left in the quarantine
> > folders. The logs have also increased quite a bit. I managed to
> > successfully delete some of the files and create some free space but I
> > am thinking that there should be some automation in place that could
> > check the free space periodically and make room if certain conditions
> > are met.
> >
> > My question is: does anybody know of an easy way to clean the old
> > entries. Do you have some script that could be run periodically once a
> > certain threshold has been reached (ie. clean files older than 30 days
> > if free space is less than 1GB)
>
> Mircea;
>
> I will ass ume that you are used to writing scripts and using crontab; if
> not let me know and I'll help you write a script.
>
> Write a script that uses df -h to return the free space on the hard
> drive, test the value to see if you have met the threshold of less than
> 1 Gb of free space; if it has run the sub routine below,
>
> find /directory/where/your/files/are -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm '{}' \;
>
> if it is still within the threshold value use the script to exit because
> it has nothing to do.
>
> run this as a crontab once a day at a time period where the load is
> typically the lowest. This script if written properly uses very few
> system resources.
>
> Hope this helps
> Jeff Price
>
Mircea;
When you get a few files in both directories would you print out a full
listing of the directory using the "ls -l" command so I have an idea of
all that's being written so that we don't delete files we should keep.
Thanks
Jeff
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