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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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Last edited by zaxxon; 10-05-2010 at 10:04 AM..
# 2  
Old 10-05-2010
have you tried incorporating your functionality in a script and then scheduling the script in cron....???
# 3  
Old 10-05-2010
Bug
No I did not. I will and let you know.
Thanks very much.

---------- Post updated at 07:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:09 AM ----------

It worked. Thanks for your help.
# 4  
Old 10-05-2010
it would most likely work as well if you would mention the location of find - like
Code:
1 0,12 * * * /usr/bin/find /tmp -name "*\.model" -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

Regards
zxmaus
# 5  
Old 10-06-2010
In cron... always use absolute paths for all commands, and file paths...

for find command you have to use.
also for the rm command use absolute path.
Last edited by thegeek; 10-06-2010 at 07:42 AM.. Reason: missed to mention in cron, which is important
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