Create cron or similar to delete old zip files

[jtreminio]

We recently ran out of space on /tmp

Either need to create a cron job to go through every day and remove older files, or we need to not even create the zip file and have it all on RAM?

[frastel]

Mmh I don' think we could handle all the archiving stuff in RAM (besides you have a RAM disc). I would try to use the terminate event http://silex.sensiolabs.org/api/Silex/Application.html#method_terminate to delete old zip archives. Searching old files with the Symfony Finder component would help a bit.
I am no friend of cronjobs and I prefer self-cleaning apps.

[gwagner]

There is a Puppet function alled Tidy. Point it at a folder and tell it to delete any folders / files that are too old. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#tidy

[frastel]

The tmp sys folder is deleted now after archive generation.

Still todo: The archive itself has to be deleted after downloading.