cleanup-meeting-data

This script removes data of past meetings from /var/bigbluebutton.

building

Since Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) is the current recommended platform for running BigBlueButton, it is recommended that you also use that operating system as your build environment. When using newer versions of Ubuntu or Debian to build, the installation of the .deb package will fail on the target server, because the binary will link against newer versions of system libraries, which are not available in Ubuntu 16.04.

The package assumes that your hostname during installation matches the name that your webserver is listening on, e.g. the API should be reachable at https://$(hostname)/bigbluebutton/.

# get the code
git clone https://gitlab.senfcall.de/senfcall/cleanup-meeting-data.git
cd cleanup-meeting-data

# if it's not already installed, install rust if not present
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env

# install the cargo-deb tool for building debian packages
cargo install cargo-deb

# install build dependencies
apt install -y libssl-dev pkg-config

# compile and create Debian package
cargo deb

The package will be placed in the target/debian/ directory.

installing

You can now install the package on your server. In case you don't want to set up a repo, just use dpkg -i cleanup-meeting-data_VERSION-NUMBER_amd64.deb.

You can verify the installation in the following ways:

# see whether it's running
systemctl list-timers --all --no-pager

You can watch the cleanup happen in real time by watching the journal's tail:

journalctl -xefu cleanup-meeting-data.service

To watch the countdown to the next cleanup, run

watch -n1 " systemctl list-timers --no-pager | grep cleanup-meeting-data "