cron job help

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

Hi

I am looking for a way to get one of my servers delete certain files at certain times of the day. Can any help me on this.

 

[Jeewhizz]

Sure...

What do you want to delete? File, directories?

Who owns the files?

How often do you want to run the file?

Jee

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

hi, cheers for replying.

i am wanting to delete 4 files once a day. the files are on my servers.

thanks

paul

 

[Jeewhizz]

WHen I say own, i meant which user owns the files? I'll assume that your user does.

Create a text file called delete.sh with this:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/rm -rf /home/user/file1.html
/bin/rm -rf /home/user/file2.html
/bin/rm -rf /home/user/file3.html
/bin/rm -rf /home/user/file4.html

Upload it to your user directory (in this case, /home/user) and chmod it 755

Then you need to create the cronjob. The easiest way is via shell:

$ crontab -e

enter this:

01 02 * * * /home/user/delete.sh

Save and exit. If you haven't got shell, or aren't comfortable using that, then your control panel should have something to help you.

The above cron line will run the delete.sh file once a day at 2:01am. I would test this out before committing it to real files, but its working fine for me!

Make sure you have backups

Jee

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

cheers, ill give that a go.

thanks for help

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

hi

ok done that. but when i try and run it i get

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I am running it manual with this command ./delete.sh

 

[tifosi]

hi

ok done that. but when i try and run it i get

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I am running it manual with this command ./delete.sh

try replacing the /bin/sh with /bin/bash.

I'm assuming you're using linux?

S

 

[aquanuke]

Try

delete.sh

rm -f /path/to/file/remove.file

chmod 777 delete.sh

./delete.sh