# Curator issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-issue/192321>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-issue/192321 "2019-07-25T20:52:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sridharreddy1994](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@sridharreddy1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sridharreddy1994)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-issue/192321/1 "2019-07-25T20:52:46Z")

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Hi

I am using curator and trying to delete some of indices which are older than 30 days and I got following error message,Can someone help me ?

curator --config /u001/users/elasticsearch/curator.yml /u001/users/elasticsearch/delete\_indices.yml  
2019-07-25 16:49:29,249 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices"  
2019-07-25 16:49:29,365 INFO Trying Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices": Delete indices older than 45 days (based on index name), for ingestion- prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an actionable list of indices (ignore\_empty\_list) and exit cleanly.  
2019-07-25 16:49:30,485 ERROR Failed to complete action: delete\_indices. \<class 'ValueError'\>: Invalid epoch received, unable to convert None to int

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-issue/192321/2 "2019-07-25T21:37:06Z")

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Please share the YAML action file you are using. Paste it between triple back ticks, like this:

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-issue/192321/3 "2019-08-22T21:37:18Z")

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