[Mapserver-users] problem with crontab to delete old map images

[Gerry Creager]

As Lowell says, local, or, "system" time.

00 *has* broken things for me; don't know why.

Did you edit it as crontab -e or edit the file itself?  If you did an 
explicit edit, you have to restart crond.

gerry

Lowell Filak wrote:
> It should use local.
> Your minute entry doesn't need to be 00 simply 0 although I'm not sure
> that 00 should break anything.
> Be sure to check /var/log/cron to see if the entry was run by cron.
> HTH
> Lowell
> 
> The following message was sent by "fx gamoy" <fx.gamoy at mapxplore.com> on
> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:08:28 +0100.
> 
> 
>>hello
>>i have added a daily job with crontab -e 
>>00 20 * * * find /web/mapimage -name "*.png" -exec rm -f  {} \;
>>but nothing occur at 20:00.
>>
>>i use a debian woody package and cron seem to be well started
>>
>>which time cron use? universal? (date -u) or local (date)?
>>thanks for any suggestion
>>fx
>>
>>
> 
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