Re: tidy not deleting links and/or directories

[Chris Edillon]

On 11 Feb 2003, Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> Hi, I am having a problem trying to clean out /tmp using cfengine's tidy
> action.  What I would like to do is delete everything in /tmp.
> 
> Here is a sample script that does not act as I feel it should:
> [root@scooby cf]# cat cf.test
> control:
> 
> 
>         actionsequence = ( tidy )
> 
> 
> tidy:
> 
> 
>         /tmp    pat=*       recurse=0   age=0 rmdirs=all dirlinks=delete
> links=tidy
> 
  rmdirs=all only deletes empty directories, and you have recurse=0
meaning that the directory contents are never deleted as tidy never
descends into the subdirectories.  try setting R=inf.


chris