Delete Old Spam Emails Custom Cron - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

plxkarl · #1 07-29-2008

Hey Guys,

I've done some research however I got stuck. My goal is to create a cron job that runs every hour and goes through all web accounts on my server and deletes spam emails that are older than 3 days. This is what I came up with:

Code:

0 * * * * find /home/*/mail/*/*/.spam/cur/* -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm{}

HOWEVER

... when i test just a piece of that command:

Code:

find /home/*/mail/*/*/.spam/cur/* -type f -print |xargs ls|wc -l

I get the pretty "Argument list too long" error. I dont want to proceed setting up that cron job until I'm 100% sure that it is correct and will work on all user accouts with some of them having over 50,000 spam emails in ther .spam/cur folder. Any advice?

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