Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Saturday 07 May 2005 08:17, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op zaterdag 7 mei 2005 17:12, schreef Scott Leighton:
> >  test -e $SPOOL/$BASE && {
> >         case $BASE in
> >           cron.hourly)  TIME="-cmin  +60 -or -cmin  60" ;;
> >           cron.daily)   TIME="-ctime +1  -or -ctime 1"  ;;
> >           cron.weekly)  TIME="-ctime +7  -or -ctime 7"  ;;
> >           cron.monthly) NOW=`date +%s`
> >                         LASTMONTH=`date -d "last month" +%s`
> >                         DIFF=`expr '(' $NOW - $LASTMONTH ')' /
> > 86400` TIME="-ctime +$DIFF"
> >                         ;;
> >         esac
> >         # remove all lock files for scripts that are due to run
> >         eval find $SPOOL/$BASE $TIME | \
> >              xargs --no-run-if-empty rm
> >     }
> >
> >
> > I've stared and stared at it but can't see where it is bumping
> > it by this weird 15 minute increase each day. Anyone have
> > any clues?
>
> It's already fixed for then next suse release ;)
>
> Change:
> >           cron.daily)   TIME="-ctime +1  -or -ctime 1"  ;;
> >           cron.weekly)  TIME="-ctime +7  -or -ctime 7"  ;;
>
> to
>
>           cron.daily)   TIME="-cmin  +1440 -or -cmin  1440"  ;;
>           cron.weekly)  TIME="-cmin  +10080 -or -cmin  10080"  ;;

I'm imagine I'm the only one careless enough to make the mistake I did 
in applying the fix Richard posted here, but in case you're having 
problems getting the cron jobs to run after doing so, I should point 
out that not only did the numbers change, but the "-ctime" was changed 
to "-cmin".

For those not cognizant of the myriad of options to the "find" command 
(a real trove of useful stuff, by the way), -ctime and friends (-atime 
and -mtime) measure "time" in days (i.e., the time range is their 
arguments times 24 hours). The -amin, -mmin and -cmin counterparts 
measure time in minutes. That's a factor of 1440 difference!


> ...
> --
> Richard Bos


Randall Schulz