Hello out there,
Our system has a pdf generator that creates pdf files. We dont need them pas 120 days.
So I have this command in my crontab. I currently set it to "0" for testing. But normally have it set to -mtime 120 to remove files out of the folders from PDF out to several other potential folders out. Nothing ever happens though. Crontab runs. Just this command never seems to happen. Is there something missing?
0 0 * * * find /prod/app/$LOGNAME/data/audit/pdf/*/*/*.pdf -type f -name '*.pdf' -mtime 0 -exec rm {} \;
Are you saying it is never executed, or it runs but doesn't do a thing?
As a rule of thumb you should always use full paths when using crontab since it doesn't have a profile.
Also, find is recursive so this:
Can be replaced with this:
Lastly, rm is oftentimes alias'ed to "rm -i" so it may be expecting user input. Again try using full paths to avoid this behavior. Try:
Last edited by verdepollo; 05-03-2013 at 12:43 PM..
Reason: Added [icode]
I'm trying to create a crontab entry that will run the who command once per hour Monday-Friday. Any command output should be appended to the file whoison.log in my home directory.
This is what I wrote:
crontab 0 * * * 1-5 who >> /home/myhome/whoison.log
Did I do this right?
Thanks (7 Replies)
somehow one of my directories got a number of files whose names start with a dash -
e.g. -1129.txt
how can I remove them?
If I issue rm -1129.txt I get the message of illegal options
if I issue rm /-1129.txt I get a message that -1129.txt is not found
Lisa
HP-UX 11.23 i64 (3 Replies)
Hello,
Can anyone pls. provide me with the command for deleting files older then 15 days with a restriction to keep at least 5 files in a directory even if they are older then 15 days.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Pulkit (4 Replies)
Hi,
I've worked out that my server was getting clogged with the access_log.processed file.
I deleted it using the command
> /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/statistics/logs/access_log.processed
I also set that up as a crontab job for every Wednesday.
What I was wondering is the version using... (4 Replies)
I want to find the files and delete all the files except the last file.
I am using find command , I am sending the find output to a file and getting all the lines except the last one and sending it to the remove command . This is not working. can anyone help me out to do it in the find command... (8 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I am working on IBM AIX. I have written one script and kept in the crontab as to run daily at 11:38 AM. and the output of the script to be appended to the file generated with the month name. but my file deleting daily and the new file is creating with the output of the shell... (2 Replies)
Hello Friends,
Im trying to delete empty files in subdirectories with a command. I can find them checking only one directory in each step and then show them with my command like below moreover i could not add removing part:
ls -l */* | awk '{if ($5==0) printf "%3s %2d %s... (5 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
#
name=$1
type=$2
number=1
for file in ./**
do
if
then
filenumber=00$number
elif
then
filenumber=0$number
fi
tempname="$name""$filenumber"."$type"
if (4 Replies)
I need to run an script every 10th and 25th day in every month at 11pm.
the script name is /home/ss/automated.sh
I tried to execute the script every day and everytime with the below syntax. its not executing it from crontab.
* * * * * /home/ss/automated.sh
Any idea why it not... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ramkumar15
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
crontab
CRONTAB(1) BSD General Commands Manual CRONTAB(1)NAME
crontab -- maintain crontab files for individual users (ISC Cron V4.1)
SYNOPSIS
crontab [-u user]
crontab [-elr]
DESCRIPTION
crontab is the program used to install, deinstall, or list the tables used to drive the cron(8) daemon in ISC Cron. Each user can have their
own crontab, and though these are files in /var/cron, they are not intended to be edited directly.
If the /var/cron/allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the /var/cron/allow file
does not exist but the /var/cron/deny file does exist, then you must not be listed in the /var/cron/deny file in order to use this command.
If neither of these files exists, depending on the compiled in settings, only the super user will be allowed to use this command, or everyone
will be allowed to use this command. On NetBSD everyone is allowed to use this command.
The default maximum size for a crontab is 256 kilobytes, but this may be changed for all users on the system by putting the desired maximum
size (in bytes) in the /var/cron/maxtabsize file.
If the -u option is given, it specifies the name of the user whose crontab is to be tweaked. If this option is not given, crontab examines
``your'' crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the command. Note that su(1) can confuse crontab and that if you are running
inside of su(1) you should always use the -u option for safety's sake.
The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename ``-'' is given.
The -l option causes the current crontab to be displayed on standard output.
The -r option causes the current crontab to be removed.
The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. After you exit
from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed automatically.
FILES
/var/cron/allow Optional list of users that are allowed to use crontab.
/var/cron/deny Optional list of users that are disallowed to use crontab.
/var/cron/maxtabsize Maximum size of crontab files. Defaults to 256 kilobytes.
/var/cron/tabs/ Directory containing the individual user crontab files, named after the user.
DIAGNOSTICS
A fairly informative usage message appears if you run it with a bad command line.
SEE ALSO crontab(5), cron(8)STANDARDS
The crontab command conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2''). This new command syntax differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well
as from the classic Version 3 AT&T UNIX syntax.
AUTHORS
Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
BSD May 6, 2010 BSD