Greg K — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:11:43 +0000

Here is what I ended up throwing together for my use in case anyone ever comes across this thread needing something similar.

This script just deleted any log files over a week old in the directories starting with IP_ (indicates not logged in as a user). And then if that directory becomes empty after deleting the files, then it will delete the directory as well.

Enjoy, let me know if you have any questions using/modifying it.

-Greg

PS. Note that I am using PHP 4.something, so I couldn't the scandir function built into version 5. I wrote my own and added a little extra:

$path = (string) the path you are wanting a listing of
$incRel = (true/false) should include "." and ".." in the list
$getWhat = ('d','f','b') entriest to list, directories, files, or both
RETURNS: Array of the filenames (and direcotry names) in the path specified

<?
  function scandir2($path,$incRel=true,$getWhat='b')
  {
    $dirList = array();
    $dirHand = opendir($path);
  
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($dirHand)))
    {
  	if (is_dir($path . "/" . $file))
  	{
  	  if ($getWhat != 'f')
  		if ($file == "." || $file == "..")
  		  { if ($incRel) $dirList[] = $file; }
  		else
  		  $dirList[] = $file;
  	}
  	else
  	   if ($getWhat != 'd')
  		 $dirList[] = $file;
    }
  
    closedir($dirHand);
     return $dirList;
  }
  
  $basePath = "/base/dir/path/without/trailing/slash";
  
  $lastWeek = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")-7,  date("Y"));
  
  $rootDir = scandir2($basePath,false,'d');
  
  foreach ($rootDir as $thisDir) 
    if (substr($thisDir,0,3)=="IP_")
    {
  	$subDir = scandir2($basePath . "/" . $thisDir,false,'f');
  	$canDelete = true;
  
  	foreach ($subDir as $thisFile) 
  	{
  	  $fullFile = $basePath . "/" . $thisDir . "/" . $thisFile;
  	  if (filemtime($fullFile)<$lastWeek)
  		unlink($fullFile);
  	  else 
  		$canDelete = false;
  	}
  
  	if ($canDelete)
  	  rmdir($basePath . "/" . $thisDir);
    }
  
  ?>

Greg K — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:51:40 +0000

Yeah, but i have to write a scrip to dothis every so often anyhow. Once it is up and running, will have it run as cron each night.

-Greg

andy206uk — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:23:02 +0000

Easiest solution would be to contact your host and get them to log in as root and delete the files. It will only take them a couple of seconds.