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

[Joshua Zeidner]

 did you try crontab -l ?

 -jmz

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Andy
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