[Tfug] Cron job in Ubuntu - something is wrong :( - halp?
Jim March
1.jim.march at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 17:01:09 MST 2009
OK, so I have a friend's system set up purely as a video camera
monitor running Zonealarm with six cameras. Works great - it's
running Ubuntu Hardy.
Since Zonealarm takes a bazillion little still images and the number
of picture files can get crazy, images are saved on a dedicated 500gig
drive formatted with ReiserFS.
Great. But I can't have the disk fill up, so I have a cron job set to
do a purge of files older than 90 days. It's not working.
Sigh.
Here's the contents of the root crontab entries...the username on this
system is "camera":
---
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
01 04 * * * find /media/disk/* -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
01 04 * * * echo "Purge of camera files older than 90 days
successful:" $(date)" >> /home/camera/Desktop/purge.log
---
The command:
sudo find /media/disk/* -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
...works just fine. No purge.log file is being created. I put this
in the root crontab via:
sudo crontab -e
So...what the heck?
[wimper]
Jim
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