Re: Testing for file age

[David E. Nelson]

Hi John,

Hmmm, good question. 'tidy:' seems to be the only fuction that uses 'age='. 
So, how about this: go ahead and delete slocate.db since it is going to be 
rebuilt in a matter of minutes anyways?  Your users may balk at this if they 
use 'locate' very regularly 24x7.

tidy:

    any.Hr02::  # Update slocate.db at 2AM if older than 4 days.

        /var/lib/slocate
            pattern=slocate.db
            age=4
            type=mtime # access time is used by default
            define=run_updatedb

shellcommands:

    any.run_updatedb::

        "/usr/bin/updatedb"

- or -

Hmmm, I can't get filters -> FromMtime to work (2.1.14).  But this might an 
option, too.

Good luck,
         /\/elson


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, John van Zantvoort wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to test for a files mtime to define a class so if e.g. the
> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db file is more then 4 days of define the class
> run_updatedb. but I've not been able to find such a function within
> cfengine.
>
> Any hints?
>
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