system crontab

[Martin Hepworth]

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 at 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
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