[K12OSN] scripting trash removal

[Mark Gumprecht]

I did consider that, But I have a backupPC running with 9 days of 
incrimental backups and 2 full backups, so it isn't anything I couldn;t 
pull back in two shakes (and the backup happens before the dump). Even 
though they are told to clear their cache and dump their trash, I still 
get trouble tickets in my IRM ticket system that are the result of 
wacking their quota because of cache and trash.
Mark
Mike Ely wrote:

> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:22 -0500, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
>>
>>> Dave was nice to send me this for clearing cache
>>>
>>> !#/bin/bash
>>> for x in `ls /home`; do
>>> echo "Doing $x ..."
>>> cd /home/${x}/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache
>>> rm -Rf *
>>> done
>>>
>>> Ok that works just fine. Soooo, If that works for cache, with a 
>>> little mod like this
>>>
>>> !#/bin/bash
>>> for x in `ls /home`; do
>>> echo "Doing $x ..."
>>> cd /home/${x}/.Trash
>>> rm -Rf *
>>> done
>>
>>
>> You've probably already considered this but just in case:
>>
>> Deleting cache files should be relatively transparent to an end-user (It
>> affects their performance somewhat but they shouldn't lose data.)
>> Deleting the contents on .Trash is unexpectedly circumventing the way
>> the Trash works (to be able to recover deleted files.)
>>
>> If you hadn't already considered that, you might want to implement aging
>> of the Trash (like the tmpwatch program for /tmp) or user quotas (so the
>> user has to empty the Trash themselves in order to stay under quota.)
>>
>> -Toshio
>
>
> That's a good point.  However, the vast majority of users do not use 
> their Trash (or Recycle Bin) correctly at all.  I'm sure many in here 
> can recount numerous times where they found a user with a couple of 
> gigs of general rubbish in their trash.  Most people delete stuff and 
> never ever empty.  Yeah, there was that one lady who freaked when I 
> emptied her trash (it's almost a nervous habit for me when sitting 
> down at a desktop).  Apparently she was actually using it as a folder 
> to store stuff.  D'oh!
>
> Mike
>
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD3
Unity, ME
gumprechtm at msad3.org