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

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14:45, 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..

Use the /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch script for this... it uses the tmpwatch 
script where you can specify the age before something gets nuked.
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