Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:03:08 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system crontab Message-ID: <72cf361e0610280703r7c262b03r66add8521355574c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061027123200.P71098@192.168.11.51> References: <20061027123200.P71098@192.168.11.51>
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This will happen regularly anyway. If you want to shorten this time, look in the exim "/usr/local/etc/exim/configure" file for how to shorten/change timeout delays then you won't need to do this. -- martin On 10/27/06, Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to daily run a certain script that cleans exim's queue from > frozen messages: > > sudo exiqgrep -i -z | sudo xargs -L 1 exim -Mrm > > I have created a file called rm_frozen_msg.sh, gave it appropriate > permissions and then installed it in my user crontab. Because it did not > work I read the man and found out that I cannot run scripts as another > (root) user. Therefore I edited /etc/crontab to instruct it to run the > file daily. > > At first, it did not like sudo. As I was running it under user root > anyway, I deleted sudo from the file. Then it complained about > exiqgrep so I put the full path: /usr/local/sbin/ > > But my question is why can I run the command > > sudo exiqgrep -i -z | sudo xargs -L 1 exim -Mrm > > from the command line but I cannot use it in a file with cron? > > Thanks! > > -- > Zbigniew Szalbot > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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