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if you have shell access, you can run 'crontab -l to<br>
see if you have any existing crontabs.<br>
crontab -e to edit or create a new crontab with an entry like:<br>
<br>
* 18 * * * /path/to/myscript<br>
<br>
would run a script called myscript every day at 6pm.<br>
If you need to save the data in the file, a script like<br>
<br>
#!/usr/bin/bash
<br>
MYTIME='date $s'
<br>
cat <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>path/to/subjectfile
> /path/to/wherever<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>$MYTIME
<br>
echo > /path/to/subjectfile
<br>
<br>
would save the current contents of your file to a file named<br>
with a long unique number that represents the number of<br>
seconds since Jan. 1970, and empty 'subjectfile' which is<br>
the file you're worried about.<br>
<br>
If you don't need to save the contents, just use the last line to empty<br>
it every day. I hope that's something like what you wanted to do<br>
<br>
On 04/04/2011 05:41 AM, a wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I believe I have ftp with a SFTP-SSH transfer protocol.
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 18:22 -0600, Michael wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Do you have to use ftp ? Or do you have ssh other shell access ?
On 04/03/2011 05:10 PM, a wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear Glug;
Does anyone understand how to use cron with filezilla.I would like to
limit the size of a cyclically enlarging file, on a repeating second day
purge cycle.
Regards
Anthony
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