On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
On 12 Jan 2010, at 02:15, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
Restoring from a backup is a terrible solution. I make nightly
backups of my databases but loosing a days worth of data will
make me very unpopular.
Likewise losing all the emails in an imap mailbox would make me
equally unpopular. I think for me it's best to just move user
data outside /opt/local. I already moved it all to a subdir of /
opt/local/var I should have just moved it outside /opt/local
altogether and I wouldn't be worried about find $prefix -exec rm
commands.
If it's all in $prefix/var, just run a find command for bin, etc,
include, lib, and share.
Good idea.
I couldn't manage to get find -path '/opt/local/var' -prune to work
but ! seems to work.
sudo find /opt/local \( ! -path "/opt/local/var/*" -a ! -path "/opt/
local/apache2/*" -a ! -path "/opt/local/www/*" \) -name *.mp_*
I think these are two other directories that some of the ports may
park user files like some of the web frameworks that allow user
uploads.
After a bit of tweaking, I'd suggest:
sudo find /opt/local -regex '.*/[^/]\{1,\}\.mp_[[:digit:]]\{9,10\}' -
print -delete
If you don't have any very old files, or files which were created
when the clock was reset:
sudo find /opt/local -regex '.*/[^/]\{1,\}\.mp_[[:digit:]]\{10\}' -
print -delete
Or, if you want to ignore anything in a ‘var’ directory:
sudo find /opt/local \( -not -path '*/var/*' \) -regex '.*/[^/]
\{1,\}\.mp_[[:digit:]]\{9,10\}' -print -delete
The first one should be quite safe; user files are unlikely to end
with ‘.mp_’ followed by 9–10 digits ;-)
I agree and this is safer.
How about:
sudo find /opt/local \( -not -path '*/var/*' \) -regex '.*/[^/]\{1,\}
\.mp_[[:digit:]]\{9,10\}\$' -print
Will this limit it further to only files that end with 9,10 digits?
If I leave off the -delete then I can first print the list or redirect
it to a file and use that file to move the files out of the way and
after a time delete them.
On systems with many users real/virtual and different forms methods
for write access db/ftp/http/mail I need this to be as safe as
reasonably possible.
I don't mind a little litter but having that litter in my env path was
annoying.
Thank you everyone for your contributions,
Brad
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