initial cleanup task
diff --git a/releng.control/cleanupArtifacts.sh b/releng.control/cleanupArtifacts.sh
index bfe521b..b606a66 100644
--- a/releng.control/cleanupArtifacts.sh
+++ b/releng.control/cleanupArtifacts.sh
@@ -19,13 +19,18 @@
# if more cleanup is needed, we should take time, and
# existence of more recent builds into account, so we never
# delete the last existing build (even if "old").
+
n=10;
+artifactsDir=${BUILD_HOME}/artifacts;
-echo " Removing artifact directories older than $n days";
-echo " number of directories before cleaning: ";
-find ${BUILD_HOME}/artifacts -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 | wc -l
+echo;
+echo " Removing artifact directories older than ${n} days";
+echo " (from ${artifactsDir})
+before=`find ${artifactsDir} -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 | wc -l`;
+echo " number of directories before cleaning: ${before}";
-find ${BUILD_HOME}/artifacts -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -ctime +$n -exec rm -fr '{}' \;
+find ${artifactsDir} -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -ctime +$n -exec rm -fr '{}' \;
-echo " number of directories after cleaning: ";
-find ${BUILD_HOME}/artifacts -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 | wc -l
+after=`find ${artifactsDir} -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 | wc -l`;
+echo " number of directories after cleaning: ${after}";
+echo;