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20050616: Scour.conf settings

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  • Subject: 20050616: Scour.conf settings
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:20:13 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Peter,

When/how do you run scour.conf?

Is it set in your crontab?

What does crontab -l return...?

Or run:

ldmadmin scour

as a line command....

I suspect this ~may be the issue. Scour does not run automatically, it
needs to be placed in your cron table or run it via the line command.


Cheers,


Jeff
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, peter Msikela wrote:

>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Soory for late reply,we had power problems in our lab,so we had to
> shutdown all machines.But my question was why the old dataproducts files
> still exist even if you set one day as "the time to live" in scour.conf?
>
> For example,below is the scour.conf and the path to directory to
> delete,but as you can see there are some files which have been created
> couple of months ago and they are still exists.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------
>
> # Configuration file for "scour" utility, to delete all files older than
> a
> # specified number of days from specified directories and all their
> # subdirectories.  Scour should be invoked periodically by cron(8).
> #
> # Each line consists of a directory, a retention time (in days), and
> # (optionally) a shell filename pattern for files to be deleted.  If no
> # filename pattern is specified, "*" representing all files not beginning
> # with "." is assumed.
> #
> # A hash in column one indicates a comment line.
>
> # Directory                     Days-old        Optional-filename-pattern
>
> #~ldm/data/dir1                 2
> #~ldm/data/dir2                 2               *.foo
> #~ldm/logs                      1               *.stats
> /var/data/ldm                   1               *
>
> [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 Jun 16 11:43 ldm.pq
> drwxrwxr-x    2 ldm      root         4096 Mar 24 16:06 logs
> [ldm@drizzle ldm]$ cd ldm
> [ldm@drizzle ldm]$ ls -l
> total 12
> drwxrwxr-x    2 ldm      ldm          4096 Jun 14 10:19 nowcast
> drwxrwxr-x    3 ldm      ldm          4096 Mar 23 23:11 surface
> drwxrwxr-x    3 ldm      ldm          4096 Jun 13 20:28 WWA
> [ldm@drizzle ldm]$ cd nowcast
> [ldm@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
>
> thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>
>