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PHP Script Using Exec Function & Launched From Crontab Hogging Server Memory

InsightsBy alex September 1, 2011 Leave a comment

While working on a PHP script on a CentOS Linux server that runs from crontab I ran into an issue where PHP was bogging the server down because of memory use. The script has a lot of output that is not necessary to store though when using the exec function within the PHP script it…

Bash Script That Deletes Directories Older Than X Days If Y Number Of Directories Exist

Code SnippetsBy alex August 15, 2011 Leave a comment

Earlier tonight I created a little script that will run in cron on a Linux server. The script counts the number of directories and files in a specific directory and if the count is above Y then it deletes directories and files older than X number of days. In the example script below the number…