Puppet users - May 2007 - Trying to make tidy{} work

Hi,

Say I''ve got a directory full of stale Tomcat temp files of the form:

/usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/webapps_assessment/strts6866.tmp

and I want to delete any files that haven''t changed in a week and not
keep any backup.

Should this get rid of them:

  tidy {
"/usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/webapps_assessment":
    age => "1w",
    backup => false,
    type => mtime,
  }

? It doesn''t appear to.

Am I missing ''recurse => true''?

What''s the syntax & quoting for ''age''?
  quoted, no space    :   "1w"
  unquoted, no space  :   1w
  quoted, with space  :   "1 w"
  unquoted, with space:   1 w

Can I wildcard the files to tidy? Note that the nice people who made
Tomcat/Struts/whatever hide a "tldCache.ser" file in with all the
stale
"strts####.tmp" files and it''d be nice to kill only the temp
files.

Essentially, I''m looking for a way to do

/usr/bin/find
/usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/webapps_assessment
-name "strts*.tmp" -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | /usr/bin/xargs -0
/bin/rm

but in the Puppet idiom.

-- Bob

PS.: For any of you also managing Blackboard, I feel your pain.

On 15 May , 2007, at 19:48, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
> Should this get rid of them:
>
>   tidy {
> "/usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/ 
> webapps_assessment":
>     age => "1w",
>     backup => false,
>     type => mtime,
>   }
>
> ? It doesn''t appear to.

I''m looking into this and I''ll have an answer to your question
shortly.

On 15 May , 2007, at 19:48, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
> Am I missing ''recurse => true''?
Yes, add a recurse, as well as:

	path => "/usr/local/blackboard/apps/tomcat/Catalina/localhost/ 
webapps_assessment"

>
> What''s the syntax & quoting for ''age''?
>   quoted, no space    :   "1w"
>   unquoted, no space  :   1w
>   quoted, with space  :   "1 w"
>   unquoted, with space:   1 w
For the sake of convention, I think quoted with no spaces is best: 
"1w"

On May 16, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Benjamin C. Kite wrote:
>
>>
>> What''s the syntax & quoting for ''age''?
>>   quoted, no space    :   "1w"
>>   unquoted, no space  :   1w
>>   quoted, with space  :   "1 w"
>>   unquoted, with space:   1 w
>
> For the sake of convention, I think quoted with no spaces is best:   
> "1w"
 From the code, it looks like no spaces are allowed.

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On 16/05/07, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Benjamin C. Kite wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> What''s the syntax & quoting for
''age''?
> >>   quoted, no space    :   "1w"
> >>   unquoted, no space  :   1w
> >>   quoted, with space  :   "1 w"
> >>   unquoted, with space:   1 w
> >
> > For the sake of convention, I think quoted with no spaces is best:
> > "1w"
>
>  From the code, it looks like no spaces are allowed.
>
Small hijack for a slightly related question: does the timeout also
accept values like these? I.e. can I say something like ''timeout =>
"60s"'' or ''timeout => "3m"'' ?
Or does it have a fixed size like seconds or minutes?

Thanks,
Thijs

On May 24, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Thijs Oppermann wrote:
> Small hijack for a slightly related question: does the timeout also
> accept values like these? I.e. can I say something like ''timeout
=>
> "60s"'' or ''timeout =>
"3m"'' ?
> Or does it have a fixed size like seconds or minutes?
I think the timeout is fixed in seconds.

We should have a standard timing type, though.  Volunteers...?

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