19991005: deleting old data

>From: Tom Priddy <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199910052016.OAA10080

>From:  Tom Priddy
>
>We recently upgraded our sun workstations operating system to solaris 7.
>
>We have the ldm back up and online....but old data files are not being
>deleted. What crontab (or program) keeps file systems from filling up?
>ktp
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>Tom Priddy                                address@hidden
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>Ag. Weather Center                  fax:  606-257-5671
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>University of Kentucky
>Lexington, KY 40546-0276
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Tom,

Your crontab probably used the ~ldm/bin/scour program (along with the
~ldm/etc/scour.conf) to periodically scour off old data. An example
for running the scour program every 3 hours using ldmadmin would look like:
0 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22 * * * bin/ldmadmin scour >/dev/null 2>&1

Your ldm log files should also be rotated daily so they don't grow too 
large as well, eg: 00 17 * * * bin/ldmadmin newlog

Steve Chiswell