[Kde-kiosk] Automate emptying trash bin
Murray Trainer
mtrainer at gopc.net
Thu Jan 4 03:55:16 CET 2007
Hi Michael,
Thanks for that. Unfortunately the ktrash --empty requires an X-session
to be running. I might have to just do:
rm -f ~/.local/Share/Trash/files/*
rm -f ~/.local/Share/Trash/info/*
Which seems to work :-)
Murray
> Hi,
>
> of course there is a way to do this via a script. We're talking about KDE :).
> I remember doing it by DCOP, but I can't find the option any more.
>
> However, you can use ktrash. ktrash accepts --empty, so "ktrash --empty" will
> empty the trash can of the logged in user. If you need to run this script as
> root or as a different user you might need to use su or sudo and correct
> XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY variables.
>
> This might work:
> XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.XAUTHORITY DISPLAY=:0 su user -c "ktrash --empty"
>
> Maybe you figure out some problems when trying to empty the trash can of a
> user that isn't logged in; I just emptied the trash can every time a user
> logged in.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --Michael
>
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 01:59 schrieb Murray Trainer:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > On our system, when users fill up their disk quota, they can't login any
> > more. I was thinking one way of avoiding this would be to empty their
> > trash if their disk space is low. Is there any way of doing this via a
> > script?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Murray
> >
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