[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#1078911: missing reports cleanup job

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2024-08-17 11:35:52, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Actually, my investigation wasn't quite correct there: I was looking in
> the "old" /var/lib/puppet/reports directory, which is now
> /var/lib/puppetserver/reports directory...
>
> So we should do this:
>
>  1. make sure we either move /var/lib/puppet/reports to
>     /var/lib/puppetserver/reports on upgrade (or destroy the former when
>     puppet-master is purged)
>
>  2. add a cron job to automatically cleanup
>     /var/lib/puppetserver/reports
>
> The results from the three commands where still similar, but yielded a
> *lot* more reports, 93080 to be exact. The cleanup ended up releasing
> more than 40GB of disk space, with 3GB remaining.

And for now I have added this cron job:

root at marcos:/etc/cron.daily# cat puppetserver
#!/bin/sh

if [ -e /var/lib/puppet/reports ] ; then
        find /var/lib/puppet/reports -type f -ctime +30 -delete
        find /var/lib/puppet/reports -type d -empty -delete
fi

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