Heya,

I ve got a Samba server with a shared folder.

This folder is used to exchange files internally in the office,
and I need a file copied onto it to be deleted automatically after 48 hours.

I ve been using a script in cron.hourly:

find "/raid/File Exchange" -mtime +2 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

which would work fine, only that when I copy the file to the samba server,
the "created" and "modified" fields stay the same. So, if the script is in a cron.hourly, it deletes all files on the hour rather than after 48.

How do I work around this?

Thanks for any help

Paul

Not sure I understand. Are you using "cp <filename> <destination>" to
copy the files to the server? I don't use Samba, but I backup my comps
to my server with "rsync", and sometimes copy individual files with "cp".
Both have switches available that will allow you to retain permissions
when you copy, the simplest being "cp -a" if you've just copying one
file, and do it as root rather than user.

Sorry if I missed you're meaning. Both "man rsync" and "man cp" have
reasonable explanations of the switches you will need to use.

Heya,
I m copying files from Windows workstations using samba.
Simply c&p into the shared folder.
Can anyone help?
Cheers
Paul