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.
Chef, Linux
- redhat
- centos
- ubuntu
- debian
- macos
- Good possibility it will work in windows as all path references have been abstracted. (Not tested)
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- purge: Default action.
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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
.
- Array of regular expressions that are applied to the list of files present in
-
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
.
- Array of regular expressions that are applied to the list of files present in
-
age
- Files older thanage
(in days) will be deleted.- Defaults to
nil
.
- Defaults to
-
size
- Files larger than thesize
(in b,M,G,T,P) will be deleted.- Defaults to
nil
.
- Defaults to
-
directory_size
- Old files are removed until directory is at or below given size- Defaults to
nil
.
- Defaults to
-
recursive
- enable recursive searching from the path indicated in the resource- Defaults to
false
- Defaults to
# 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