Timeline for Cron Jobs Not Executing - Manual Commands Working
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| Jul 11, 2017 at 20:33 | vote | accept | Tyler Scafidi | ||
| Jul 11, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | Tyler Scafidi | My apologies, I forgot a space after "rm {}". Your solution worked best. Here is my final cron job (before looking into -mmin): 20 4 * * * find /mnt/ext/../../backup-*_xyz.tar.gz -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 20:16 | comment | added | Tyler Scafidi | I am able to use find command with the switches you gave to find the old files, but the cron job doesn't remove them. | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 18:48 | history | answered | agurney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |