Cleanup / Housekeeping system generated files like &PH&a

[Manfred Hagedorn]

Hello,
i found accidential tousands of files (collected over the years) in a &PH& folder.
I have searched in the forum already, for housekeeping e.g. the &PH& subfolder for a project.
I always find a hint to the CLEAR.FILE command.
I understand, this is a manual on demand task.
But i would like to automate this task and let it be done by scheduled unix jobs.
Question: can i simply remove files older then e.g. 10 days from this &PH& folder?
like: find &PH& -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Or would i damage any system files by this?

Further question: if i can do as suggested, are there other folders which should be cleaned up regular?

Hope, anybody can help me.
Thanks a lot and best regards - Manfred

[chulett]

Yes, something like your find command running in cron is pretty typical. And other than your job logs, which auto-purge should handle, there really isn't any other directory needing housekeeping.

[asorrell]

When you go to 8.1 there are some internal MachineLog files in /tmp that are used by the resource tracker. They are supposed to cleanup automatically, but aren't. However there's a patch for both 8.0.1 and 8.1 to fix that.

[Manfred Hagedorn]

Craig, thanks for feedback. My main concern was, to damage any still needed files. No i will do the deletion by any unix commands.

Andy, currently it is not planned to go to 8x.

Thanks a lot !!! Manfred

[chulett]

CLEAR.FILE is damaging if jobs are running, checking for anything 2+ days old there should be perfectly safe unless your jobs run for days, that is.

[Beaulieu80]

How do we run the DS command in a unix script?

/usr/local/ds/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/$ValueProjectName/'&PH&'


but was is command to execute this line? I have my project name and logins but cant find the good command to execute it.

Hello,
i found accidential tousands of files (collected over the years) in a &PH& folder.
I have searched in the forum already, for housekeeping e.g. the &PH& subfolder for a project.
I always find a hint to the CLEAR.FILE command.
I understand, this is a manual on demand task.
But i would like to automate this task and let it be done by scheduled unix jobs.
Question: can i simply remove files older then e.g. 10 days from this &PH& folder?
like: find &PH& -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Or would i damage any system files by this?

Further question: if i can do as suggested, are there other folders which should be cleaned up regular?

Hope, anybody can help me.
Thanks a lot and best regards - Manfred

[chulett]

That's not a "command" of any kind but rather a path and &PH& simply a directory. From UNIX, empty it just like you would any other directory.