[ZendTo] automatic cleanup of old files not occurring -- where to I start troubleshooting?

[Kris Lou]

How old is your installation?  I'm guessing that the cronjobs were rolled
into *.deb and *.rpm releases, so references or the link to the "handroll"
installation were removed.

-Kris


Kris Lou
klou at themusiclink.net

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com>
wrote:

> Replying to myself, first, I’m sorry if that last message came through as
> something other than plain text – it wasn’t meant to.  I’m cursed with
> Outlook+Exchange.
>
> Next, I kept looking through the list archives and noticed this email
> where Seth Turner has a cron job run by root to execute cleanup.php – I’ll
> try that approach, combined with an abundance of caution in the form of
> extra backups the first time.
>
> That lead me to “locate zend |grep cron”, which lead me to a crontab.html
> page in zendto docs someone had moved out of the normal location…and that
> in turn says these three crontab entries should be added to
> /etc/cron.d/zendto.
>
> It appears I have an answer.
>
> I would still appreciate any other thoughts / advice, as well as any
> pointers to where this is in the docs online that I’ve missed, as the docs
> in my installation appear to have been intentionally moved to an
> inaccessible spot.
>
> --
> Trever
>
>
> *From:* zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to
> <zendto-bounces at zend.to>] *On Behalf Of *Furnish, Trever G
> *Sent:* Monday, June 06, 2016 7:01 PM
> *To:* zendto at zend.to
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] automatic cleanup of old files not occurring -- where
> to I start troubleshooting?
>
> Hello,
>
> I inherited a zend.to installation that’s been working well afaict except
> that it’s not automatically removing old files…which seems to be unexpected
> based on the presence of cleanup.php and on this discussion in the list
> archives:
>
> *http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/zendto/2015-March/thread.html*
> <http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/zendto/2015-March/thread.html>
>
> I’m not sure where to start troubleshooting though.  Any advice?  Is there
> any documentation on what’s supposed to kick off the cleanup?
>
> I have checked to be sure that the apache user has the permissions
> necessary to remove the folders and files in question (and tested doing so
> on one sample file).
>
> I pondered running cleanup.php by hand as root and passing in the
> preferences.php file…but this is a production system where I don’t have
> confidence that action would be safe.
>
> --
> Trever
>
>
>
>
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