From 7104b2107db592756f4090ba772869eb86d6a44f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jfriedli
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:59:16 -0700
Subject: file removal background job

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 README.md | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8dfe03..22ff44d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ Note that you can add multiple hosts from which you want to accept API requests.
 a space.
 **IMPORTANT:** The default value if the variable is not set is: `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`
 
-Configure another environment variable: `MAT2_MAX_FILES_BULK_DOWNLOAD=10`
+Configure the following environment variables:
+ 
+ - `MAT2_MAX_FILES_BULK_DOWNLOAD=10` Max number of files that can be grouped for a bulk download.
+ - `MAT2_MAX_FILE_AGE_FOR_REMOVAL=900` Seconds a file in the upload folder is kept. 
+ After that it will be deleted. Default `15 * 60`
 
 This specifies the max number of files that can be bulk downloaded using the api.
 Note: Each file has a max file size of 16mb
@@ -66,10 +70,6 @@ systemctl restart nginx/apache/…
 
 It should now be working.
 
-You should add `find /var/www/mat2-web/uploads/ -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;`
-in a crontab to remove files that people might have uploaded but never
-downloaded.
-
 # Deploy via Ansible
 
 If you happen to be using [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/), there's an
@@ -92,10 +92,6 @@ https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2-web/container_registry
 Example: 
 `docker run -p 80:80 -d -e MAT2_ALLOW_ORIGIN_WHITELIST='https://myhost1.org' registry.0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2-web:latest`
 
-Make sure to add 
-`find /var/www/mat2-web/uploads/ -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;` as cron job
-run inside the container.
-
 # Development
 Install docker and docker-compose and then run `docker-compose up` to setup
 the docker dev environment. Mat2-web is now accessible on your host machine at `localhost:5000`.
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