Description

This cookbook is meant to keep order on a running node to purge files
on the filesystem that are unwanted. You could also apply some criteria to the files
that are targeted such as regular expressions, age, and size.

Requirements

Chef, Linux

Platform:

• redhat
• centos
• ubuntu
• debian
• macos
• Good possibility it will work in windows as all path references have been abstracted. (Not tested)

Cookbooks:

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Resources

• janitor_directory

janitor_directory

Actions

• purge: Default action.

Attribute Parameters

janitor_directory

• path - Resource name or path parameter will pass the path to be examined to the lwrp.

• include_only

  • Array of regular expressions that are applied to the list of files present in path.
  • This will eliminate all entries except for those matching the regular expressions.
  • Defaults to nil.

• exclude_all

  • Array of regular expressions that are applied to the list of files present in path.
  • This will eliminate all entries matching the regular expressions.
  • Defaults to nil.

• age - Files older than age (in days) will be deleted.

  • Defaults to nil.

• size - Files larger than the size (in b,M,G,T,P) will be deleted.

  • Defaults to nil.

• directory_size - Old files are removed until directory is at or below given size

  • Defaults to nil.

• recursive - enable recursive searching from the path indicated in the resource

  • Defaults to false

Examples

    #  Delete all files in /var/log with the .gz extension
    janitor_directory "/var/log" do
      include_only    [/.*\.gz$]
      action          :purge
    end

    #  Delete all files in /var/log with the .gz and numeric extension
    janitor_directory "/var/log" do
      include_only    [/.*\.gz$/,/.*\.\d/]
      action          :purge
    end

    # Delete all files in /var/log (recusively) with the .gz and numeric extension
    # And are also larger than 10M and older than 30 days
    janitor_directory "/var/log" do
      include_only    [/.*\.gz$/,/.*\.\d/]
      age             30
      size            "10M"
      recursive       true
      action          :purge
    end

    # Delete old files fom /var/log until directory is below 2G
    janitor_directory "/var/log" do
      directory_size  "2G"
      action          :purge
    end