compress old puppet reports

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:43 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> Shouldn't this also be running as puppet, not root ?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> diff --git a/modules/puppet/files/puppet-report-clean.sh b/modules/puppet/files
> index d4af330..8aff168 100755
> --- a/modules/puppet/files/puppet-report-clean.sh
> +++ b/modules/puppet/files/puppet-report-clean.sh
> @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
>  #!/bin/bash
>  
>  # clean up all but the last 1 month of puppet reports
> -/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime 720 /var/lib/puppet/reports/
> +/sbin/runuser -s /bin/sh - puppet -c "/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime 720 /var/lib/
>  
>  # compress all the .yaml files per host dir, except for the latest 24 hours wo
>  # since they are txt files and compress really well
>  
>  for host in `echo /var/lib/puppet/reports/*`
>  do 
> - /bin/ls -1 $host/*.yaml | head --lines=-48 | xargs --no-run-if-empty xz -9
> + /bin/ls -1 $host/*.yaml | head --lines=-48 | \
> +       /sbin/runuser -s /bin/sh - puppet -c "xargs --no-run-if-empty xz -9"
>  done
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 

<shrug>

I'm not sure how it makes a hill of beans worth of difference.

It makes no network connections and performs nothing controversial.

-sv