Merge branch '12-reap-old-tests' into 'master'

Resolve "The redis view of "known_tests" is often out-of-date"

Closes #12

See merge request !8

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a875787..581c1e7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+custodian (0.34) stable; urgency=low
+
+  * Install a cron.daily task to reap old tests - which will ensure that
+    the "redis" alerter contains accurate data if it is used.
+
+ -- Steve Kemp <steve@bytemark.co.uk>  Thu, 26 Jun 2017 12:00:21 +0100
+
 custodian (0.33) stable; urgency=low
 
   * Allow an alert's subject to be prefixed with a custom string, read from
diff --git a/debian/custodian.cron.daily b/debian/custodian.cron.daily
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0f78837
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/custodian.cron.daily
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# Ensure that any known-tests are pruned.
+#
+# This is only used if the `redis` alerter is enabled, if this is not
+# used then this will be harmless.
+#
+# (This script is required because redis set-members do not have TTLs
+# so they cannot be reaped automatically.)
+#
+
+/usr/bin/redis-cli  del known_tests >/dev/null 2>/dev/null