Modifying a crontab entry
About this task
The Administrator's Guide discusses modifying crontab entries or other scripts to prevent recursion. On Solaris systems, the standard cron job for removing old .nfs files is now in the script /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind, which is called by the root crontab, so you do not need a separate root crontab entry for removing old .nfs files. However, you can use the -prune option with any find commands in the crontab file to prevent recursion into mounted VOBs.
For example, you can replace
an entry such as:
15 3 * * * find / –name core –mtime +7 –exec rm –f {} ';' –o –fstype nfs –prune
with
this entry: 15 3 * * * find / –name core –mtime +7 –exec rm –f {} ';' –o –fstype nfs –prune -o -fstype mvfs -prune