Hello
My name is Greg, and I have looked all over for help to my problem and I hope someone here can help!!

I have a website, which is running on what I believe is a Linux server, I am not sure and have emailed my web host about this. I believe this because it uses DirectAdmin.

I want to have a feature for users to create a page based on selections which will save to a directory, for example root/users/

I would like to create a cron job that will remove all files that haven't been accessed in 7 days to save disk space that will run once a week.

The trouble is I know nothing about Cron Jobs.

Is this possible?

If it is can you please take me through it step by step, this is my first attempt at a cron file and i have no idea where to start

Screenshot of my DirectAdmin Cron Job Control Panel:
(edited with '*' to replace '.' and http removed due to 5 post URL control, this is not spam so I hope that's OK)

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Thanks for reading this.

Edit crontab (crontab -e) and add this line:
* 1 * * * find /path/to/files -type f -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;


That will delete files older than 7 days every night
at 1 o'clock.

Thank you SOOO much, you have no idea how much you have saved me

Words can not thank you enough, rest assured I will click that thanks button!

You should be able to fill in the details for setting the time by following those instructions, tinkster's method is only good if you have ssh access to the server, the last bit of tinkster's line; the find and onwards should be put in the command textbox on the page, read this for information on the command 'find', whilst what tinkster says will work it is good for you to understand what is happening yourself so that can edt the command to suit any change in needs further down the line

Thank you both

Just to clarify, and this probably sounds a bit stupid, but where do I enter that command?

Sorry for me newbishness

edit:

Ignore me, I just re-read it and figured it out

Thank you both again

In the screenshot you gave us, put each of these lines into the separate textboxes,

you can only enter the commands like tinkster says if you have ssh access to the server, which you may or may not

and change /path/to/files to the actual location on your server.

EDIT, maybe I should read posts fully before answering

Thank you phil.d.g and tinkster
I will get on to my host soon to find out if I have SSH Access

You have both been great helps, thank you