topic Re: redirecting output from crontab script in Operating System - HP-UX

redirecting output from crontab script

MikeL_4 — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:15:44 GMT

I am trying to create a log file from an ignite recovery script with the date appended to it with following crontab entry:
# Ignite Backup
00 06 * * 0 /root/make_net_recovery.ksh > /root/`hostname`_net_recovery.log.`dat
e "+%Y%m%d_%H%M"` 2>&1

It created a log file with the servername_net_recovery.log. but did not append the date to the end as I had hoped.

Re: redirecting output from crontab script

Jean-Luc Oudart — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:24:22 GMT

Hi Mike,

May be you should put the command in a specific script :
H1=${hostname}
D1=$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M"}
LOGFILE=/root/$H1_net_recovery.log$D1
then your command

Alos ensure that your PATH has access to all commands.

Regards
Jean-Luc

Re: redirecting output from crontab script

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:26:49 GMT

Hi,

Escape % character. For ex., date +\%Y\%m etc.,

-Sri

Re: redirecting output from crontab script

MikeL_4 — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:19:58 GMT

Thanks