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

[Jim March]

GHAA!  THANK you Zack!

Yikes...

Jim

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> First off, I think you're talking about Zone Minder (unix security cam
> capture app) rather than Zone Alarm (spastic paranoia inducing windows
> firewall).
>
> ZoneMinder has a built in "PurgeWhenFull" filter.  You're trying to
> reinvent the wheel here.
>
> http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation#Filtering_Events
>
> Also, as ZoneMinder keeps a record of all the picture files in a MySQL
> database, your cronjob method is going to result in missing references
> to files in the database, whereas that filter handles it properly.
>
> - Zack
>
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