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Operating Systems AIX Find command fails in crontab Post 302459658 by cforget2810 on Tuesday 5th of October 2010 07:00:10 AM
Old 10-05-2010
Data Find command fails in crontab

Hi ,
I imported find command I have on my hp-ux server to clean up the /tmp of my new IBM AIX servers.
Though, the commands always fails in the cron but if I past it at the prompt, it works find. I tried with at jobs and regular 'find' .

Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Many thanks

Here is part of my crontab:
Code:
1    0,12  *   *   *   find /tmp -name "*\.model" -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
0    0,12   *   *   *  find /tmp -name "*.catrace.*.log" -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
16   0,12   *   *   *   find /tmp -name *.web* -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
16   0,12   *   *   *   echo "find /tmp -name \"*.web*\" -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;"| at now

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DH-EXEC-INSTALL(1)						      dh-exec							DH-EXEC-INSTALL(1)

NAME
dh-exec-install - Install (and possibly rename) files. SYNOPSIS
#! /usr/bin/dh-exec debian/default.conf => /etc/my-package/start.conf usr/bin/* DESCRIPTION
Being a sub-command of dh-exec(1), this program must not be ran directly, but through dh-exec, which automatically runs all available sub-commands if run bare; or explicitly with dh-exec --with=install. It is meant to be used for dh_install(1) files, and those alone. If it finds that its input is not such a file, it will do nothing, but echo back the contents. The purpose of the program is to extend dh_install(1)'s functionality, by allowing to specify a destination filename. This can be accomplished by a special syntax: the " => " mark between a source and a destination means that the source file should be installed with the specified destination name. For obvious reasons, the source must not be a wildcard, and the destination in this case must be a file, and not a directory. All other non-comment lines are left alone. RESTRICTIONS
Due to the way executable scripts are called from debhelper(1), there is no way to know what options were used for the original dh_install(1). This means, that the --sourcedir option of dh_install(1) will not work correctly when dh-exec-install is in use. IMPLEMENTATION
Internally, the renaming happens by creating a temporary directory under debian/tmp/, and copying (or moving, if the source was under debian/tmp/ to begin with) the file there, with the new name. This is done this way to allow dh_install(1) to do the real copying, and allow its options to continue working, even when renaming is involved. The temporary directory is put under debian/tmp so that it will be cleaned by dh_prep(1) when the clean target gets to run. Thus, no extra code is needed anywhere to clean up the renamed files. ENVIRONMENT
DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR Indicates which directory the command-specific scripts should be sought for. If not specified, scripts will be searched for in /usr/share/dh-exec/. FILES
$DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR/dh-exec-install-* The various scripts for the higher-level program. SEE ALSO
debhelper(1), dh-exec(1), dh_install(1) AUTHOR
dh-exec-install is copyright (C) 2011-2012 by Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>. 2012-05-03 DH-EXEC-INSTALL(1)
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