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

[Noah Misch]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:15:53AM -0500, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users 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).
> 
> I agree with Segher.
> 
> Automatically deleting files is completely unacceptable and contrary
> to the purpose of the GNU Compile Farm.  The Compile Farm requires
> that users are considerate of each other and the shared resources that
> are provided gratis.
> 
> We can determine the users consuming the largest amount of diskspace
> and request that they delete it.

I agree with all that.  (Automated /tmp and perhaps /var/tmp cleanup is fine
with me, but not other files.)