Resource Type: tidy

(Namevar: If omitted, this attribute's value defaults to the resource's title.)

The path to the file or directory to manage. Must be fully qualified.

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Tidy files whose age is equal to or greater than the specified time. You can choose seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks by specifying the first letter of any of those words (for example, '1w' represents one week).

Specifying 0 will remove all files.

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Whether tidied files should be backed up. Any values are passed directly to the file resources used for actual file deletion, so consult the file type's backup documentation to determine valid values.

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One or more (shell type) file glob patterns, which restrict the list of files to be tidied to those whose basenames match at least one of the patterns specified. Multiple patterns can be specified using an array.

Example:

tidy { '/tmp':
  age     => '1w',
  recurse => 1,
  matches => [ '[0-9]pub*.tmp', '*.temp', 'tmpfile?' ],
}

This removes files from /tmp if they are one week old or older, are not in a subdirectory and match one of the shell globs given.

Note that the patterns are matched against the basename of each file -- that is, your glob patterns should not have any '/' characters in them, since you are only specifying against the last bit of the file.

Finally, note that you must now specify a non-zero/non-false value for recurse if matches is used, as matches only apply to files found by recursion (there's no reason to use static patterns match against a statically determined path). Requiring explicit recursion clears up a common source of confusion.

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In case the resource is a directory and the recursion is enabled, puppet will generate a new resource for each file file found, possible leading to an excessive number of resources generated without any control.

Setting max_files will check the number of file resources that will eventually be created and will raise a resource argument error if the limit will be exceeded.

Use value 0 to disable the check. In this case, a warning is logged if the number of files exceeds 1000.

Default: 0

Allowed values:

• /^[0-9]+$/

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If target is a directory, recursively descend into the directory looking for files to tidy. Numeric values specify a limit for the recursion depth, true means unrestricted recursion.

Allowed values:

• true

• false

• inf

• /^[0-9]+$/

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Tidy directories in addition to files; that is, remove directories whose age is older than the specified criteria. This will only remove empty directories, so all contained files must also be tidied before a directory gets removed.

Allowed values:

• true

• false

• yes

• no

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Tidy files whose size is equal to or greater than the specified size. Unqualified values are in kilobytes, but b, k, m, g, and t can be appended to specify bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes, respectively. Only the first character is significant, so the full word can also be used.

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Set the mechanism for determining age.

Default: atime

Allowed values:

• atime

• mtime

• ctime

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