[Dxspider-support] cronjob@zs0mee - daily - FAILURE

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Mon Feb 6 09:12:07 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:42 +0200, Dick wrote:
> Dirk,
> 
> this morning my latest email from the CROn says that the flag '-f' is
> invalid ... That is with using 'temp-watch' ... In
> '/etc/cron.daily/spiderlog' I changed the 'tmpwatch' to 'temp-watch' ...
> 
> This is the previous error again ... "/etc/cron.daily/spiderlog: line 1:
> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch: No such file or directory" ...
> 
> What is the '-f' flag for in /etc/cron.daily/spiderlog???

      -f, --force
              Remove files even if root doesn't have write access (akin to  rm
              -f).

So, it probably isn't necessary. I am being very imperative (those that
know me will understand that this is completely out of character :-)

Dirk 






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