Cache management

Question:

How can I keep the las/server/output directory from growing too big?

Solution:

Whether your server is very active or not, you should manage the product cache. It only takes one person requesting multiple large data files to fill up a smaller disk. A cache management cron job and a command line script are provided in las/etc/. To use the cron job script you will have to

copy the script to a directory in the super user path
make sure the script is executable
edit the super user crontab to include this script.

Here is las/etc/las_cache_cron_job:

#!/bin/csh -f
#
# This script will delete all las/server/output/* files
# which have not been accessed in more than 'age' days or
# which are larger than 'size' bytes.  It is designed to
# be run by a nightly cron job.

set age = 90 # days
set size = 1000000 # bytes

# INSERT YOUR OWN DIRECTORIES, ONE FOR EACH SERVER
#
#find /usr/local2/web/htdocs/las_1/server/output/ -atime +$age -exec rm {} \;
#find /usr/local2/web/htdocs/las_1/server/output/ -size +$size -exec rm {} \;

#find /usr/local2/web/htdocs/las_2/server/output/ -atime +$age -exec rm {} \;
#find /usr/local2/web/htdocs/las_2/server/output/ -size +$size -exec rm {} \;

Jonathan Callahan: Jonathan.S.Callahan@noaa.gov
Last modified: January 06, 2003