Cleaning up 'jclouds-script-{somenumber}' files

[David Bosschaert <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I see that jclouds leaves quite a lot of 'jclouds-scripts-32938740'
files in the home directory of my cloud nodes. They seem to be created
by compute.runScriptOnNode(...) API calls.
I was wondering what the best way is to clean these up. Or is there an
automatic process that gets rid of these files after some time?

Thanks,

David

Re: Cleaning up 'jclouds-script-{somenumber}' files

[Chris Custine <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hi David,
I don’t think you are doing anything wrong, I think the reason they do not get cleaned is because it is possible to run them in the background and you might have dependencies between the scripts. That is just a guess, and there may not be a specific reason.  It might be possible to clean the ones that are blocking and have a more controlled lifecycle.  IIRC they are all located in the /tmp directory, so this may be something trivial and worth adding.  
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Chris Custine


On July 22, 2014 at 10:34:45 AM, David Bosschaert (david.bosschaert@gmail.com) wrote:

On 22 July 2014 17:22, Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org> wrote:  
>> I was wondering what the best way is to clean these up. Or is there an  
>> automatic process that gets rid of these files after some time?  
>  
>  
> Not as far as I am aware. Have you tried something like a cron job that  
> deletes these at intervals?  

Yeah, a cron job could work but obviously it should not delete the  
ones that are still in use :)  

I guess the proper question is, is it normal that these files are left  
after script execution or am I doing something wrong which causes them  
to be left there?  

Cheers,  

David  

Re: Cleaning up 'jclouds-script-{somenumber}' files

[David Bosschaert <da...@gmail.com>]

On 22 July 2014 17:22, Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org> wrote:
>> I was wondering what the best way is to clean these up. Or is there an
>> automatic process that gets rid of these files after some time?
>
>
> Not as far as I am aware. Have you tried something like a cron job that
> deletes these at intervals?

Yeah, a cron job could work but obviously it should not delete the
ones that are still in use :)

I guess the proper question is, is it normal that these files are left
after script execution or am I doing something wrong which causes them
to be left there?

Cheers,

David

Re: Cleaning up 'jclouds-script-{somenumber}' files

[Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org>]

> I was wondering what the best way is to clean these up. Or is there an
> automatic process that gets rid of these files after some time?

Not as far as I am aware. Have you tried something like a cron job  
that deletes these at intervals?

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