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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba --- Brian R Cuttler [email protected] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
