Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I run following by a script in the early morning
find data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
The machine is an AIX 5.3L. The data folder is a local directory; while /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data is a NFS of this box pointing to a directory on a SUN solaris 8 box. Although the "rm" remove the file (expBaan*.) older than 7 days, there is always 8 days expBaan.* files left in that NFS directory. Why? The date on both AIX and solaris are same.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

what does find give you when you just do a simple find /dir -ls
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

what does find give you when you just do a simple "find data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -ls"
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

"find data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -ls"
return none. But
"find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -ls"
return the one file, which is one older than 7 days. /remote/solar/flash_recovery is the NFS, that is physically located on a Solaris 8 box. With "find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;", there are always 8 files.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

sorry,

I don't think I really follow your question.

What are you exactly trying to do?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

i tried to remove any file older than 7 days under a NFS directory. However, I always got 8 days file left, not 7 days file, with my script. The similar script works perfectly well on a local drive, ie. 7 days file left.

find data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; ## local dir
find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; ## NFS dir
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Try adding, -fstype nfs to your NFS and see if that helps...
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I do not quite follow your suggestion. How can i add the -fstype to my nfs? is the "-fstype" an option? I did not see it in mknfsmnt.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I understood what you meant after re-examining the find manual. add "-fstype nfs" after the +mtime. It seems working. I will recheck tomorrorw after the cron job. Thanks.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -fstype nfs -exec rm -f {} \;
worked when run it manually, but in the cron job to remove any file older 7 days.

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

sorry mistypo, it should say "not working when run it in cron job".
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Create a file called, "script.sh"
and place this in the file

#!/bin/ksh -x
find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -fstype nfs -exec rm -f {} \;
exit 0

Then use "script.sh" in your cron entry. See what happens.

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Well. it worked in an independent script file with your suggestion. I run it in cront job. So the only thing I missed in my original file is the first line "#!/bin/ksh -x". what does it mean?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

ksh -x means verbose option, you can disable it by removing the '-x'

HTH
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Although the independent script that only contains that line and #!/bin/ksh -x works, then I included the #!/bin/ksh -x in my original script, it did not function still.

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

there could be something wrong with your script.

Try pasting it here, I can try helping
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Here is the script:
#!/bin/ksh -x

1. Subject: Run a oracle Export dump and backup to a tape

cd /oraPump/backup

echo "********** Oracle DB Backup starts at "$(date) >> log/BaanExpdp.log

1. a full schema
2. expdp baandb/##### directory=data_pump_baandb dumpfile=expBaan.dmp logfile=expBaan.log

expdp baandb/bbaann05 parfile=baan201610.par

grep " GB" expBaan201.log | sed "s/using BLOCKS method:/database size on $(date +'%d-%m-%Y') /" >> log/BaanExpdp.log

grep "estimation" expBaan201.log | sed "s/Total estimation using BLOCKS method:/$(date +'%d-%m-%Y') /" >> log/sizeDB.log

for i in expBaan*.*;
do mv ${i} ${i}$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)
done

1. ls expBaan*.* | cpio -ovC512 >/dev/rmt0.1

tar -cvf /dev/rmt0.1 exp*.* >> log/BaanExpdp.log 2>&1

find data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
find /remote/solar/flash_recovery/BAAN/data -name 'expBaan*.*' -mtime +7 -fstype nfs -exec rm -f {} \;
echo "Backup ends at "$(date) >> log/BaanExpdp.log

1. Adios!

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