Re: Emptying recycler on logout

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From: System Administrator
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:44

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: In article <1992Dec4.201219.4040@midway.uchicago.edu>  
: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent) writes:
: > 
: > Our users can't seem to get the hang of emptying the recycler.  I beg for  
: > them to delete files to relieve the disk space crunch on our Sun server,  
: > and while they happily drop old files into the recycler, I can't quite  
: > train them to emptying it.  So I'd like to automagically purge the  
: > recycler when the user logs out of their NeXT session, but I don't know  
: > how to proceed.  Any ideas?
: 

We do this by adding the following lines to /usr/adm/daily on our main
file server
# Empty the trash 
 rm -rf /u/arafel/*/.NeXT/.NextTrash/*
 rm -rf /u/fenris/*/.NeXT/.NextTrash/*
 rm -rf /u/scratch/.NextTrash/*/*
 ...

The first two are home directory servers, the last is a general 
purpose disk.

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