trash-cli: how to empty trash of another user

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#1

I am using openSUSE 13.1.

I set up a cron job to empty trash at reboot:


@reboot empty-trash > /dev/null

How do I specify what user’s trash to empty? As far as I can tell it is emptying only the root trash.

#2

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:06:01 +0000, chauncey7 wrote:

> I am using openSUSE 13.1.
>
> I set up a cron job to empty trash at reboot:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> @reboot empty-trash > /dev/null
>
> --------------------
>
>
> How do I specify what user’s trash to empty? As far as I can tell it is
> emptying only the root trash.

What happens if you put it in the user’s crontab rather than the system
crontab?

Jim

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#3

On 2014-12-19 23:06, chauncey7 wrote:
>
> I am using openSUSE 13.1.
>
> I set up a cron job to empty trash at reboot:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> @reboot empty-trash > /dev/null
>
> --------------------
>
>
> How do I specify what user’s trash to empty? As far as I can tell it is
> emptying only the root trash.

Well, it is that other user who has to write the cronjob as his own. If
you delete his trash he may be mad at you.

You could instead limit how mush disk space he is allowed to use, via
disk quotas.

To run system cron jobs as arbitrary users, you have to create a file
under “/etc/cron.d/”, which has a slightly different crontab syntax,
specifying the user each job is to run as.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

#4

That did the trick.
Thanks.