[cfarm-users] Please cleanup your /home on farm machines

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 09:29:23PM +0100, Martin Guy via cfarm-users wrote:
> On 19/01/2018, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
> > <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 03:05:48PM +0100, Martin Guy via cfarm-users
> >> wrote:
> >>> find /home \( \
> >>>         \( -name '*.o' -a \! -atime +7 \) \
> 
> >> I veto this 400%.  People have valuable .o files, and this is not very
> >> effective anyway (other files take up more space).
> >
> > Automatically deleting files is completely unacceptable and contrary
> > to the purpose of the GNU Compile Farm
> 
> This is debatable as they should be regenerated automatically at the
> next make,

I have many .o files that are not generated by a build system (heck, some
that are not object files!)

No.


Segher