Purging Netware server from a Windows 2000 client 1

[gwaielo]

I'm trying to schedule regular purges of my netware server using scheduled tasks in windows 2000 (we create a lot of temp files and if I do not purge regularly the volumes will not mount without a Vrepair with purge deleted files set to yes). The problem I'm having is that in 2000 when I do:

purge *.* /all

it will only purge the files in the current directory, when I do the same command in 95 it will purge files in all subdirectories as well.

Thanx for any help

 

[DrGreen26]

oooh, this is a new an interesting problem and is probably more related to win2k itself. I willdo some checking on the novell website and ask around to see if anyone else has encountered this problem..


Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[nolapeck]

I use the purge utility in toolbox.nlm and cron.nlm to setup a job to purge the file server every morning after backup.

Patrick

 

[mcouturier]

You can you the following commands to permenantly set the purge attribute on volumes and/or directories.

To Add the Purge attribute to all directories on the volume.
From the root of the volume, type FLAG *.* +P /S /DO
If you want to also include the root directory of the volume,
type FLAG SYS: +P /S /DO (substitute desired volume name for SYS

To Add the Purge attribute to a directory and all of its subdirectories.
From the directory where you want the Purge attribute to "begin",
type FLAG *.* +P /S /DO

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Michel Couturier CNE5

 

[gwaielo]

Thanks for the help, I used the toolkit.nlm and cron.nlm to shchedule weekly purges. (I do not want to set the attibutes to purge as we do salvage files occasionally, I just want to stop a massive amount of deleted files building up which can stop the volumes mounting on startup)