[TIGGE #BXZ-922182]: Re: .missing files & retransmissions

Manuel,

> It seems that 'scour' is not cleaning sub-directories on our system.
> 
> This is the relevant lines in scour.conf:
> # Directory                     Days-old        Optional-filename-pattern
> 
> /vol/data01/ldm/sent            2
> 
> 
> We call scour regularly. This is the relevant crontab line:
> 0 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22 * * * bin/ldmadmin scour > /dev/null
> 
> 
> I just have run scour manually, and this is the output:
> ldm@tigge-ldm:~> ~/bin/scour -v /usr/local/ldm/etc/scour.conf
> Starting Up
> skipping, no recent files in /vol/data01/ldm/sent/*
> exiting ...
> 
> 
> But if I list the contents of that directory, there are sub-directories
> older than 2 days. I'd like to see these sub-directories removed
> because, although they are empty, their i-nodes are huge as they have
> hold thousands of files:
> ldm@tigge-ldm:~> ls -al /vol/data01/ldm/sent/
> total 82792
> drwxr-xr-x  10 ldm ldm     4096 2006-05-02 22:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x   9 ldm ldm     4096 2006-04-04 14:35 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10584064 2006-04-30 13:03 200604281200
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10579968 2006-05-01 01:06 200604290000
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10575872 2006-05-01 13:02 200604291200
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10579968 2006-05-02 01:02 200604300000
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10575872 2006-05-03 01:02 200604301200
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10584064 2006-05-01 22:02 200605010000
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10579968 2006-05-02 11:25 200605011200
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ldm ldm 10579968 2006-05-02 22:55 200605020000
> -rw-r--r--   1 ldm ldm        0 2006-05-03 01:02 .scour*
> 
> 
> Could you, please, tell us if we are doing something wrong ?

You're not doing anything wrong.  The scour(1) utility wasn't designed
to remove directories -- only regular files.

Steve Chiswell has a utility that removes directories as well as 
regular files.  I sent him a copy of this reply.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BXZ-922182
Department: Support IDD TIGGE
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed