Good suggestion but no go. - HEC
From: p.novak Sent: May 4, 2004 06:48
>
> try using the full path to the rm command. the cron environment is
> probably not the same
> as your uid's.
>
>From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 5:09 PM
>
> Hi All:
>
> I having a bit of a problem adding an entry to a crontab file. Actually
> the adding works fine, it is just the command will not work.
>
> Here is what I have so far:
>
> 1. The following command works correctly from the command line:
>
> /usr/bin/find /usr/faq/xpt -name "RCTTAX.*" -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
>
> 2. When the command is added to a shell script file as above or
> to a crontab file as:
>
> 0 2 * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/faq/xpt -name "RCTTAX.*" -mtime +90
> -exec rm {} \;
>
> The execution fails with
>
> /usr/bin/find: missing argument to `-exec'
>
> 3. I have been doing this for years on various different UNIX
> systems without any problems.
>
> Any thoughts of suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards, Hugh
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