par-jaintor

Clean up old files in the ring buffer

Jantior is the tool used to ensure that full packet capture data does not fill the harddrive.

Configuring Janitor

Janitor can be tuned..

# Define the directory to check
DIR="/opt/filed-capture"

# Define constants
Minimum=100   # Minimum space below which files will be deleted (MB)
DeleteTo=200  # Delete files until this value is reached (MB)
NumtoDel=25  # Number of files to delete between each free disk space check

CronJobs

*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/ruby /opt/packets-at-rest/bin/filer  > /dev/null 2>&1
* * * * * /opt/bin/janitor.sh  > /dev/null 2>&1