Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

Cleaning up old files

We all have to clean house once in a while. Puppet's tidy resource will help you clean up old or out-of-date files, reducing disk usage. For example, if you have Puppet reporting enabled as described in the section on generating reports, you might want to regularly delete old report files.

How to do it…

1. Add the following to your manifest:

   tidy { "/var/lib/puppet/reports":
       age     => "1w",
       recurse => true,
        }

2. Run Puppet:

   # puppet agent -–test
   info: Retrieving plugin info: Caching catalog for cookbook.bitfieldconsulting.com 
   notice: /Stage[main]//Node[cookbook]/Tidy[/var/lib/puppet/reports]: Tidying File[/var/lib/puppet/reports/cookbook.bitfieldconsulting.com/201102241546.yaml] 
   notice: /Stage[main]//Node[cookbook]/Tidy[/var/lib/puppet/reports]: ...