Here’s a python script for cleaning up your artifacts dir. Posted by Phill (apparently doesn’t like to share his last name). Just put it somewhere sensible and slot into crontab.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# ==== Variables ====
ARTIFACTS_DIR="/opt/cruisecontrol/artifacts/"
NUM_BUILDS_TO_KEEP=10
# ==== End Variables ====

import os

def rm_recursive(path):
        """Removes a directory recursively"""

        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=False):
                for name in files:
                        os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))
                for name in dirs:
                        os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))
                #os.rmdir(path)

def delete_old_builds(path):
        """Deletes old builds"""

        builds = os.listdir(path)
        if len(builds) <= NUM_BUILDS_TO_KEEP:
                print "No builds to delete"
                return

        builds.sort()
        builds.reverse()

        i = 0

        for build in builds:
                i += 1
                if i <= NUM_BUILDS_TO_KEEP:
                        continue

                print "Deleting", build
                rm_recursive(os.path.join(path, build))

for file in os.listdir(ARTIFACTS_DIR):
        path = os.path.join(ARTIFACTS_DIR, file)

        if (os.path.isdir(path)):
                delete_old_builds(path)

More to follow tomorrow!

I’m not normally one to partake of stealing posts from other blogs, but this is just too good to resist.

Lifted from FailBlog.org

Download it here

Obviously you’ll need to configure the script for your environment and allocate appropriate permissions. When you’re done, drop it into /etc/init.d/ and CruiseControl will automatically start during your server’s init routines. Also, when trying to stop the process, rather than scanning ps output trying to find the correct pid to kill, you just run:

# sudo /etc/init.d/cruisecontrol stop

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