---
name: "ganeti-cleaner"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "ganeti2"
version: "2.5.2-1+deb7u2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ganeti-cleaner"
---

# ganeti-cleaner(8)

Ganeti job queue cleaner

## Name

ganeti-cleaner - Ganeti job queue cleaner

## Synopsis

**ganeti-cleaner**

## DESCRIPTION

The **ganeti-cleaner** is a periodically run script to clean old job files from the job queue archive and to remove expired X509 certificates and keys.

**ganeti-cleaner** automatically removes all files older than 21 days from **/var/lib/ganeti/queue/archive** and all expired certificates and keys from **/var/run/ganeti/crypto**.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to project website (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) or contact the developers using the Ganeti mailing list (ganeti@googlegroups.com).

## SEE ALSO

Ganeti overview and specifications: [**ganeti**(7)](/ganeti/7.md) (general overview), [**ganeti-os-interface**(7)](/ganeti-os-interface/7.md) (guest OS definitions).

Ganeti commands: [**gnt-cluster**(8)](/gnt-cluster/8.md) (cluster-wide commands), [**gnt-job**(8)](/gnt-job/8.md) (job-related commands), [**gnt-node**(8)](/gnt-node/8.md) (node-related commands), [**gnt-instance**(8)](/gnt-instance/8.md) (instance commands), [**gnt-os**(8)](/gnt-os/8.md) (guest OS commands), [**gnt-group**(8)](/gnt-group/8.md) (node group commands), [**gnt-backup**(8)](/gnt-backup/8.md) (instance import/export commands), [**gnt-debug**(8)](/gnt-debug/8.md) (debug commands).

Ganeti daemons: [**ganeti-watcher**(8)](/ganeti-watcher/8.md) (automatic instance restarter), [**ganeti-cleaner**(8)](/ganeti-cleaner/8.md) (job queue cleaner), [**ganeti-noded**(8)](/ganeti-noded/8.md) (node daemon), [**ganeti-masterd**(8)](/ganeti-masterd/8.md) (master daemon), [**ganeti-rapi**(8)](/ganeti-rapi/8.md) (remote API daemon).

Ganeti htools: [**htools**(1)](/htools/1.md) (generic binary), [**hbal**(1)](/hbal/1.md) (cluster balancer), [**hspace**(1)](/hspace/1.md) (capacity calculation), [**hail**(1)](/hail/1.md) (IAllocator plugin), [**hscan**(1)](/hscan/1.md) (data gatherer from remote clusters).

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Google Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.