Apparently the upgrade from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 broke a daily cron job which cleans up old catman files. The script used to work without any problem before the upgrade; now I get daily error messages to root.
It's a minor annoyance, but I haven't found out the reason for it yet. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim First, the script /etc/cron.daily/man: #!/bin/sh # # $Id: cron.daily,v 1.4 1996/02/17 16:09:20 alvar Exp $ # # expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week /usr/bin/nice find /var/catman -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f # expunge old catman pages which are older than one month /usr/bin/nice find /var/catman -type f -name '*.gz' -mtime +30 -print | xargs rm -f exit 0 The typical error message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 21 06:45:33 1996 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by yardbird.mat.jhu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id GAA00636 for root; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 06:43:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 06:43:49 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> /usr/bin/nice: find: Not a directory xargs: rm: Not a directory /usr/bin/nice: find: Not a directory xargs: rm: Not a directory -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
