Yesterday i used a Puppet master as an example to talk about purging old files on Linux.

• Linux – Delete files which are older than N days

Of course we can setup a cron job and run the shell command daily for housekeeping. But as we are using Puppet, we don’t we do that thru Puppet manifest?

tidy { 'puppet::reports':
  path => '/var/lib/puppet/reports',
  matches => '*.yaml',
  age => '14d',
  backup => false,
  recurse => true,
  rmdirs => false,
  type => 'ctime',
}

The above tidy type will delete those .yaml which is older than 14 days.

Done =)

Reference: Google Groups – Purge puppet’s reports