[WBEL-users] [OT] Deleting files by date

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Jeff Maze wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I was wondering if it's possible to delete files by a certain date
> period (say over the last week).  Our secondary mail server has over 4000
> messages that are over a week old, etc (even though sendmail is setup to
> delete messages after 2.5 days in queue).  I'd like to delete these messages
> that should have been deleted (leave 2.5 days worth of messages in the
> /var/spool/mqueue directory).
> 	Thanks..

In the days of Usenet News there was only one place to ask questions and
get answers. The Balkanisation of this into a myriad of mailing lists is
a step backwards.

Your question is best asked on a general Unix mailing list, your local Linux
Users group, comp.os.linux.questions, or (better) a quick google.

This list is to address issues specific to whitebox vs RHEL, installs,
packages, configuration.

To answer your question, "find" is your friend.

find /path/to/sendmail/messages +ctime 7 | xargs rm

Will probably do the job.

To do it regularly, "man crontab" and "man 5 crontab".

Cheers,    Andy!