Slackware-specific i suppose as I sometimes run out of root space and want to delete stuff in /tmp.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# ~/bin/cleantmp
# Script to delete contents of /tmp folder, giving the option to delete
[Code]....
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users are "itv-storage" and "admin" on pc.
HTML Code:
itv-storage@pc:/RAID5/storage/test$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 admin admin 4096 2011-03-16 19:28 .
drwxrwxrwx 9 admin admin 4096 2011-03-16 18:37 ..
-rwxr--r-- 1 admin admin 0 2011-03-16 19:28 file1
drwxrwxrwx 3 itv-storage itv-storage 4096 2011-03-16 18:46 folder1
itv-storage@pc:/RAID5/storage/test$ rm file1
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `file1'? y
itv-storage@pc:/RAID5/storage/test$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 admin admin 4096 2011-03-16 19:32 .
drwxrwxrwx 9 admin admin 4096 2011-03-16 18:37 ..
drwxrwxrwx 3 itv-storage itv-storage 4096 2011-03-16 18:46 folder1
itv-storage@pc:/RAID5/storage/test$
I got this part from my script working that it will delete a folder is from 8 days agoEightDaysAgo=`(date --date="8 days ago" +%d-%m-%Y)`rm -rf $EightDaysAgoTarHowever I need to remove files that are older than 8days for example if the script is'nt run for a day it will remove both the 9th and 8th day one not just the 8th day one. If I'm making any sense lol
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Quote:
rsync -a --delete --progress --log-file=/home/$USER/info.txt -e ssh /home /etc root@192.168.0.106:/mnt/back
The problem is it does not delete files that has been removed from my local system?
I run the command as root on the local system.
(I realize I should properly not ssh into the server as the server's root but I'm having trouble with the permissions and I want to make sure everything else works before messing around with it)
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[ReadMe to black-white 2
1.Change your main menu icon
2.different folder icons
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-run gconf-editor
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-click on the folder icon and browse to the unpacked black-white2.tar.gz folder and go on to / scalable/places (sometimes /scalable/places/256)
-choose your folder and press open.]
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Does any one no any cool or useful things to type in on terminal?
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