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Re: tmpwatch problem

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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:58:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [Expert]
tmpwatch problem:

>On Wednesday 17 June 2009 12:43:00 Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> Anne Wilson skrev:
>> > For some reason I can't get tmpwatch to run on this laptop - it used
>> > to.
>> >
>> > usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp
>>
>> Is this a typo, or did you forget the initial /
>>
>Hmm - you know how you see what you expect to see?  Sorry for the wasted
>bandwidth.  I should have spotted that.  It does run now and has cleaned
>up quite a large number of files.  Thanks

If you'd set an alias in ~/.bashrc, you'd hardly be able to mistype it,
even if it's gone from history.

For example:

alias broom='/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp'

Ciao,
=Dick Gevers=

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