Deletes old entries in Post and FileInfo on MatterMost GPLv2.

Free as in freedom mattermost housekeeping script.

The current change log can be found here.

The current documentation can be found here.

This script supports MySQL/MariaDB only right now. If you need something for postgresql, take a look to mattermost-retention.

Please read the installation docmentation.

The script comes with an install- and an uninstall routine.

All configurable values are configured in <project_path>/data/local_configuration.sh.

This is a full blown cronjob/systemd.service to cleanup the mattermost database tables Posts and FileInfo.

Entries older than x days where removed. This includes the attachments on the disk.

I am using my private mattermost server to communicate with each other. A german saying is "was interessiert mich mein geschwätz von Gestern" ("what do I care about my chatter from yesterday"). Also a german word called "Datenhygiene" ("data hygiene") is important. Plus, as the administrator, I want to keep the system fast for daily use. Because of that, I wanted an easy way to remove messages older than x days. There is no official configuration section in the open source version of mattermost, so I've written this little script.

The script removes entries older than <configured value> days from the database tables Posts and FileInfo. The script also removes the deleted files from the filesystem.

Right now, only mysql is supported. Right now, you have to duplicate the configuration values from your /usr/share/webapps/mattermost/config/config.json. Since the configuration is written in json and json is !fun in bash, we have to keep it that way.

Thanks to matterclean and rsyslog_mysql_housekeeping.