Monthly Archives: February 2010

shell script to clean old oracle trace and log files

Posted on 26 February 2010 by Andrew Fraser

This code cleans up old trace files, log files, core dumps, etc. It is designed to be run from cron. It takes a somewhat brutal approach by deleting files after just 7 days – good for e.g. dev/test servers, but … Continue reading →

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/etc/cron.d not working fails

Posted on 25 February 2010 by Andrew Fraser

Files in /etc/cron.d only work if they are not executable files (at least that is the case on newer version of unix/linux).

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