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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to Delete Old Cron Jobs Post 302787177 by bakunin on Thursday 28th of March 2013 07:48:38 PM
Old 03-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewT
The trouble I'm having is finding a way to clean out the old one-run cron jobs.
I don't quite get it: if you want to run a job exactly once, why do you (mis-)use cron instead of using at? The effort is the same, the format is even easier and you don't need any crontab-gymnastics afterwards.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program SYNOPSIS
strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a age The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option. -d logdir A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option. EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample of using the strclean command. This example has the same result as running strclean with no arguments: example% strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3 FILES
/var/adm/streams/error.* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 strclean(1M)
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