I thought that was what you wanted. Otherwise I would expect the original command with * to be working well in removing the files in the ../cur directory. What's going wrong with that than? -Sietse
________________________________ From: Nicholas Payne-Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12-Jul-06 14:55 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spam script That deleted all of the cur directory within the .Junk E-mail directory. Sietse van Zanen wrote: > Loose the * and do rm -rf (recursively deletes the directory) > > -Sietse > > ________________________________ > > From: Nicholas Payne-Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 12-Jul-06 14:24 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: spam script > > > > I am now trying to figure out how to use find in a similar way to tidy > up those Junk E-mail directories by deleting them after they have been > used to learn from. This is what i've tried, but the rm command doesn't > seem to like working with files within the /cur directory... > > find /home/vpopmail/domains -name ".Junk E-mail" -exec rm -f {}/cur/* \; > > If i try the above and omit the astrix, it complains about cur being a > directory: > > rm: cannot remove `/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/nick/Maildir/.Junk > E-mail/cur/': Is a directory > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions :) > > Nick > > Chris Lear wrote: > >> * Nicholas Payne-Roberts wrote (11/07/06 11:58): >> >>> Does anybody know a good way to script sa-learn to daily check on >>> junk e-mail folders? i'm currently trying the following line in a >>> cron.daily script, but its throwing up an error: >>> >>> find /home/vpopmail/domains -name ".Junk E-mail" -exec sa-learn >>> --showdots --spam cur {} \; >>> >> Your --exec subcommand is the problem. The {} expands to the full path >> of the found file. It doesn't change directory. A version that might >> work is >> >> find /home/vpopmail/domains -name ".Junk E-mail" -exec sa-learn >> --showdots --spam {}/cur \; >> >> There's not much point using --showdots in cron, I would have thought, >> but it's probably useful for testing. >> >> To make sure your find command is right, you can do something like this: >> >> find /home/vpopmail/domains -name ".Junk E-mail" -exec echo "sa-learn >> --showdots --spam {}/cur" \; >> >> which will simply echo a list of commands that would get executed. >> >> Chris >> > > >
