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Hi Peter, Hard to tell without seeing the scour.conf file.... But I do see you "cd" into a dir named "nowcast" is that symbolically linked to: /var/data/ldm ? Maybe I am missing something here... Let me know, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Weber address@hidden : Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, peter Msikela wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for reply.I was testing the deletion of files by setting the life > time of data products in the file scour.conf to be one day,but as you can > see below some old files dated May 17 still exist.The path to deletion > directory in scour.conf is /var/data/ldm and i have set it to delete all > files "*".So i wonder if i have set it correctly or there is something > else missing. > > [ldm@drizzle ldm]$ pwd > /var/data/ldm > [ldm@drizzle ldm]$ ls -l > total 398580 > drwxrwxr-x 5 ldm ldm 4096 Mar 23 23:14 ldm > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 407732224 May 10 14:29 ldm.pq > drwxrwxr-x 2 ldm root 4096 Mar 24 16:06 logs > [root@drizzle ldm]# cd nowcast > [root@drizzle nowcast]# ls -l > total 520 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 1067 Jun 12 21:31 ABQ > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 689 Jun 6 07:52 ABR > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 324 May 7 11:23 ADQ > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 675 Jun 12 00:05 AFC > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 760 Jun 14 01:40 AFG > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 1872 Jun 14 09:35 AJK > > ------- > > Peter. > > >