[Tfug] One more question re: daily chron job...

[Brian Murphy]

Is running it in the system cron (and thus as root) out of the question?
  I would do that to avoid the sudo complication.

Brian

Quoting Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>:
> Folks,
>
> Last time we wrestled with this, we learned that Zoneminder (camera
> monitor app) can do purges of older files.  Except it doesn't work.
> I've tried three times now, it still fills the disk, I'm flat sick and
> tired of it.
>
> There has to be a way in Ubuntu (Jaunty) to do a daily purge chron job
> to the effect of:
>
> ---
> sudo find /media/disk/* -mtime +45 -exec rm {} \;
> ---
>
> That command works fine, executed manually.  It purges files older
> than 45 days on a particular hard disk formatted ReiserFS (due to the
> high number of small files).
>
> Any way I can get it to kick off daily?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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