Extra .xac and .log files

[Jean-David Beyer]

Dave wrote:
> 
> I've just started using gnucash and am quite impressed with it! I've got a
> question about the extra files produced though.
> 
> I presume that the extra .xac and .log files are backups and logs
> respectively, and are safe to delete (so long as I've got a backup of the main
> file!) Is there any way to stop them being produced? Would this be a really
> bad idea for some reason? Can I influence where they're created? Currently
> they make it more difficult to see what's going on in the default directory
> (ie along with the main file itself). Plus, they ignore my umask settings and
> are automatically 644 - not really a problem but I'd like fine control over
> this.
> 
I am surprised they ignore your umask. If your umask is 027, for
example, I would be surprised if they were other than 640.

What I do is have a crontab setting like this:

02 04         * * *  /home/jdbeyer/GnuCash/GAWK.cron

What thes does is that at 2 minutes after 4AM everyday, I am going to
remove all files in this directory (other than GAWK.cron and
GAWK.script) that are over a week older than my current data file
(whose name is JeanDavid).


In my /home/jdbeyer/GnuCash directory is a script, as follows:

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/jdbeyer/GnuCash
sh <<EOF
`ls -lt | /bin/gawk -f /home/jdbeyer/GnuCash/GAWK.script`
EOF
cd ..
/bin/mail jdbeyer -s "Cleaned ~/GnuCash" <<EOF
You might want to check it.
EOF


and GAWK.script reads:

# GnuCash cleanup script.

# This (g)awk script rummages around in ~jdbeyer/GnuCash and removes
# all files a week older than the current (JeanDavid) file. I.e.,
# we return the current file and a week's previous .log and .xac
files.

# There may be a bug in the line: total *=  365.
# It will be off by all the leap years since 0000, but since
# we should never have backup files that much older than the
# current file, I think it should be OK.

# Get into ~jdbeyer/GnuCash and run:

# `ls -lt | gawk -f GAWK.script`

function filedate(Month, Day, YearTime,  leap, total, timestamp)
{
	if(index(YearTime, ":") == 0) {
		total = YearTime;
	}
	else {
		timestamp = systime();
		total = strftime("%Y", timestamp)
	}
	if((total % 4) == 0) {
		leap = 1
	} else {
		leap = 0
	}
	total *= 365;
	total += leap;

	if(Month == "Jan") total += 0;
	if(Month == "Feb") total += 31;
	if(Month == "Mar") total += 59;
	if(Month == "Apr") total += 90;
	if(Month == "May") total += 120;
	if(Month == "Jun") total += 151;
	if(Month == "Jul") total += 181;
	if(Month == "Aug") total += 212;
	if(Month == "Sep") total += 243;
	if(Month == "Oct") total += 273;
	if(Month == "Nov") total += 304;
	if(Month == "Dec") total += 334;

	total += Day;

	return total;
}
$1 != "total" && !/GAWK.*/ && $9 == "JeanDavid"	{newest = filedate($6,
$7, $8);
						 #print newest;
						}
$1 != "total" && !/GAWK.*/ && (length($9) != 0) && $9 != "JeanDavid"
{#print filedate($6, $7, $8), $6, $7, $8, $9;
						 if(filedate($6, $7, $8) < (newest - 7))
								print "rm", $9 " ;"
						}


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