From 394ad3a32cd37ec96641f63492cc5065c7210e17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VG <vg@devys.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:23:29 +0100
Subject: add cron script to purge old pastes

---
 config.py                   | 4 ++++
 scripts/config.py           | 1 +
 scripts/purge-old-pastes.sh | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 scripts/config.py
 create mode 100755 scripts/purge-old-pastes.sh

diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 4454890..8b53f8c 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # configuration file of pastme service
 
+# the directory where the pastes are stored
 pastedir = '/tmp/pastes'
+
+# how many days a paste remain stored
+timeout = 30
diff --git a/scripts/config.py b/scripts/config.py
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..3721332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../config.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/purge-old-pastes.sh b/scripts/purge-old-pastes.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a22ded8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/purge-old-pastes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This script is intend to be run as a cron job (every day for ex) to purge
+# old pastes.
+
+pastedir="$(python3 -c 'import config; print(config.pastedir)')"
+timeout="$(python3 -c 'import config; print(config.timeout)')"
+find "$pastedir" -type f -mtime +"$timeout" -exec rm {} \;
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