[Tfug] Cron job in Ubuntu - something is wrong :( - halp?

[Jim March]

Ah.  But would that have killed off the whole cron job, or just the
creation of the purge log?  In other words, wouldn't the actual
erasure of old junk still work, or not?  If the deletion should have
still worked, then that's good advice on the quotes but there's still
something else wrong...?

Thanks,

Jim

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:
> You have three quote marks for your echo command. They should be in pairs.
>
> Andy
>
> Jim March wrote:
>>
>> 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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