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 Jul 12 2007, 09:35 AM
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Enlightened  Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 14-July 06 Member No.: 22,506  |
One of my clients is using a program that regularly creates HUGE core files that I have to manually delete before his domain exceeds it's quota.
I'd like to create a cron job that goes in each night and deletes them but my cronjob skills are such that I'm a little nervous about creating one that deletes files. So I'd like a little help here. Does this look like the correct format: 30 12 * * * rm /home/[domian]/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/core.* Thanks for any advice. |
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Jul 12 2007, 09:38 AM
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 Fellow Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 11-December 06 From: Cleveland, Ohio / BGSU Bowling Green, Ohio Member No.: 25,561 |
I'd use rm -f to ensure that it forces a delete without it prompting a user (that isn't there).
And if your server is CST, it will run at 12:30PM (afternoon) not night. If you want it to run at 12:30AM (night), then that would be 30 0 * * * -------------------- The Planet customer since May, 2004:
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Jul 12 2007, 02:19 PM
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Enlightened Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 14-July 06 Member No.: 22,506 |
QUOTE (BlueFusion @ Jul 12 2007, 11:38 AM)  I'd use rm -f to ensure that it forces a delete without it prompting a user (that isn't there). And if your server is CST, it will run at 12:30PM (afternoon) not night. If you want it to run at 12:30AM (night), then that would be 30 0 * * * Very cool. Thanks for your input! |
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Jul 13 2007, 06:01 AM
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 SuperGeek  Group: The Planet Staff Posts: 1,696 Joined: 27-December 05 Member No.: 19,248 |
I would suggest full path to rm, since cron does not have any ENV settings.
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Jul 13 2007, 08:38 AM
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Fellow Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 11-December 06 From: Cleveland, Ohio / BGSU Bowling Green, Ohio Member No.: 25,561 |
I do believe that RH/CentOS and other distros have $PATH defined. I've only ever had to use a full path in crontab on Solaris.
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Jul 13 2007, 10:28 AM
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SuperGeek Group: The Planet Staff Posts: 1,696 Joined: 27-December 05 Member No.: 19,248 |
Good to know, i've always used full path out of habit.
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