Re: 'tidy' question

[John S. J. Anderson]

Armin Wolfermann <aw@osn.de> writes:

> * John S. J. Anderson <janderso@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> [16.06.2004 00:07]:
>> I'd like to define a 'tidy' action that will clean up /tmp on our
>> machines. However, I need to exclude files owned by root from this
>> tidy action. It seems like the way to do this is to use a filter,
>> but I can't seem to find the filter syntax to say "all users save
>> this one". 
>>
>> Is a filter the right approach? If so, what would that filter look
>> like? 
>
> I would use something like:
>
> filters:
>     { notroot
>     Type:   "reg"
>     Owner:  "root"
>     Result: "Type.!Owner"
>     }

  Thanks, this is basically what I ended up doing -- although I had to
  expand Type to be 'reg|link|dir' really get the effect that I wanted.

thanks again, 
john.
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