Puppet users - Oct 2006 - Question regarding ''tidy'' type

Hello all,

I am trying to use the tidy type to clean up a directory that I use for
running scripts via puppet.  My relevant manifest looks like:


 tidy { "/root/.puppet/" :
        age => ''30D'',
        path => ''/root/.puppet/'',
        recurse => true,
        rmdirs => true,
        type => atime,
  }


However, when I run puppet it deletes files and directories that where
accessed ( or even created ) within 30 days.  Example:

# mkdir /root/.puppet
# touch /root/.puppet/new-file
# puppetd --test
info: Caching configuration at /var/lib/puppet/localconfig.yaml
notice: Starting configuration run
notice: //my_test/tidy=/root/.puppet//tidy=/root/.bluegecko/new-file/tidyup:
tidyup changed ''5'' to ''2592000 ''
notice: //my_test/tidy=/root/.puppet//tidyup: tidyup changed
''5'' to ''2592000
''
[.....]


My goal is delete files older than 30 days, and I thought that''s what I
was
doing here.   Is there something that I might be setting elsewhere to cause
this to happen?

-r''


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RijilV wrote:
> My goal is delete files older than 30 days, and I thought that''s
what I
> was doing here.   Is there something that I might be setting elsewhere 
> to cause this to happen?
I apologize; I created the tidy type very early on as a way of covering 
cfengine functionality, and I haven''t looked at it since; I
don''t user
it, either.  Clearly I''ve learned a lot about test code since then, 
because the tests for that type were horrible.

I rewrote a significant portion of the type and all of the tests, and 
now it works.  It''ll be in the next release, but that probably
doesn''t
help you much right now.

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