GLANCE-CACHE-CLEANER(1)

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🌸 GLANCE-CACHE-CLEANER(1) — the manual page bestie 💅

okay so this is the manpage for glance-cache-cleaner, which lives in manual section 1 and belongs to the manual group cloud computing. she's part of the OpenStack Glance project, so yeah, we're in cloud-computing girlie territory ✨

👑 GLANCE IMAGE CACHE INVALID CACHE ENTRY AND STALLED IMAGE CLEANER

hiii welcome to the lore section 🫶 here's who made this whole thing happen:

  • Author — OpenStack Glance Project Team
  • Contact — <glance@lists.launchpad.net>
  • Date — 2025-04-02
  • Copyright — OpenStack Foundation
  • Version — 30.0.0
  • Manual section — 1
  • Manual group — cloud computing

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

glance-cache-cleaner [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the whole point of this one: it's meant to be run as a periodic task from cron. like, she's a background girlie. she doesn't need attention, she just shows up on schedule and handles her business 💅

here's the tea on what she cleans up:

if something goes wrong while we're caching an image — say the fetch times out, or an exception gets raised, whatever — we create an 'invalid' entry. these entries just get left around on purpose, for debugging purposes. but after some period of time? we wanna clean those up. bye bestie 👋

also, if an incomplete image hangs around past the image_cache_stall_time period, we automatically sweep it up. no stragglers allowed, periodt 🧹✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

General options

  • -h, --help — show the help message, then dip. classic.
  • --version — print the version number and exit. she said "who am I? 💁"
  • -v, --verbose — print more verbose output. she's talking more now 🙈
  • --noverbose — disable verbose output. shhh, we're being demure.
  • -d, --debug — print debugging output (this sets the logging level to DEBUG instead of the default WARNING level). full unhinged logging mode, we love her 💀
  • --nodebug — disable debugging output. put the debug back in the box.
  • --use-syslog — use syslog for logging.
  • --nouse-syslog — disable the use of syslog for logging.
  • --syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY — the syslog facility that receives log lines.
  • --config-dir DIR — path to a config directory to pull *.conf files from. this file set gets sorted, so you get a predictable parse order if individual options are over-ridden. the set is parsed after the file(s) specified via previous --config-file arguments, which means over-ridden options in the directory take precedence. translation: configuration from files in a specified config-dir will always take precedence over configuration from files specified by --config-file, regardless of argument order. she said directory girlies stay winning 👑
  • --config-file PATH — path to a config file to use. you can specify multiple config files by using this flag multiple times, like --config-file <file1> --config-file <file2>. values in latter files take precedence. last one in wins, no cap.
  • --log-config-append PATH, --log-config PATH — the name of a logging configuration file. this does not disable existing loggers — it just appends the specified logging configuration to any other existing logging options. please see the Python logging module documentation for details on logging configuration files. heads up: the log-config name for this option is deprecated ⚠️
  • --log-format FORMAT — a logging.Formatter log message format string, which may use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. Default: None
  • --log-date-format DATE_FORMAT — format string for %(asctime)s in log records. Default: None
  • --log-file PATH, --logfile PATH — (optional) name of the log file to output to. if it's not set, logging goes to stdout.
  • --log-dir LOG_DIR, --logdir LOG_DIR — (optional) the directory to keep log files in (this gets prepended to --log-file).

📁 FILES 📁

  • /etc/glance/glance-cache.conf — the default configuration file for the Glance Cache. her home base 🏠

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

Author — OpenStack

Copyright — 2010-present, OpenStack Foundation.

and that's the whole page bestie, ty for coming to my TED talk 🎀 this edition was stamped 33.0.0 on Sep 30, 2026 — mwah, slay, go clean some cache 💖✨🦋

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