cookbook 'janitor', '= 1.0.1'
janitor (6) Versions 1.0.1 Follow2
A General Cookbook used to cleanup files and directories on nodes
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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
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
.
- 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
-
recursive
- enable recursive searching from the path indicated in the resource- Defaults to
false
- Defaults to
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
Dependent cookbooks
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