In my cron job on one system I have log files removed older than 3 days, like so:
On another system I would like to check and remove anything older than 2 hours.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-09-2011 at 07:40 AM..
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Hi, I am having a few problems with cron.
I have created a shell script (to rotate www logs - this works) and then did the following (as root)
#crontab -e
2 0 * * 3 /cron_scripts/wwwlogs.sh
?
w
?
q
#
crontab -l
entry not shown e.g. it did not show what I had just writern
I then... (6 Replies)
Hi there,
this time a have a other problem :)
i will start a script over the cron.
if i start the script manual (per command) it works without any problems, but over the cron it doesent work.
my cron looks like this:
26 15 * * * /path/scriptname.sh 2> /path/error.log
there is no... (3 Replies)
Ok, so I have an nfs mount setup and within it there are symbolic links to other directories and such.
So anyways I created a link to a directory like so
ln -s /var/stuff/more/stuff/here/ stuff/
and i ended up with directory stuff with link 'here' inside.
so i was pieved and decided... (1 Reply)
how to store a date into file?
and how we can access date from the file?
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how we can store date in file? (1 Reply)
Hi friends,
today i created a cron job , registered the crontab file associated but dont know why the cron is not getting executed at the right time.??
content of Crontab file :
21 15 * * * /subrat/myt
i wanted to execute the script myt on 15:21 PM of everyday.
the script myt... (2 Replies)
Hi guys. This is my first post so bear with me.
I'm trying to get cron to run a shell script in my home directory (/home/server) that checks the temperature of my HDD. The script works fine, however I can't run it in cron. I've checked the syslog and I have only seen two errors:
- Exited with... (11 Replies)
I am trying to setup a cron that runs a script to update my ip for my domain name every time I reboot and checks if my ip changes every 5 minutes and if it does then I update it. I am running Ubuntu server 12.04.
The file /etc/cron.d/ipupdate contains
#
#
# Run ipupdate
#
#
/5 * ... (3 Replies)
I am new to creating crontab file , i just wrote below
(40 19 * 3 * /root/maths/practisecron.sh), the script just prints "Hi".
When ever i save the above file i am getting this .
# crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
Can you please check where it went wrong.. (1 Reply)
Good evening, ive got this cron to be run:
if i run this manually it doesnt work,it takes me to the prompt again
/export/app/CO/opge/scr/Informe_parametros_colombia.ksh >/dev/null 2>&1
here is the code fragment:
coopge@coopge: opge PRODUCCION>more... (1 Reply)
Hi I want to set up a cron for every 15 minutes between some hours.
Can you tell whether the below command will work.
Getting confuse because my time goes from night to next day morning.
i want to setup 8 PM to next day 10 AM.
*/15 20-10 * * * sh abc.sh (1 Reply)
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uuclean(1M)uuclean(1M)NAME
uuclean - uucp spool directory clean-up
SYNOPSIS
[options]
DESCRIPTION
The commands, including are targeted for removal from HP-UX; see the below.
scans the spool directories for files with the specified prefix and deletes all those that are older than the specified number of hours.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Clean directory instead of the spool directory. If directory is not a valid spool directory, it cannot contain ``work
files''; i.e., files whose names start with These files have special meaning to pertaining to job statistics.
Scan for files with
pre as the file prefix. Up to 10 arguments can be specified. A without any pre following will cause all files older
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Files whose age is more than
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