topic Re: script help in Operating System - Linux

script help

Ragni Singh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:43:07 GMT

Hi all, can you please help me write a script to run in the weekly cron job to archive the prior weeks logs. Thanks and points will definitely be assigned.

Re: script help

Oviwan — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:24:42 GMT

Hi

add this line to crontab

#crontab -e

0 0 * * 0 cp /path/to/logs/* /path/to/archive

for more information --> man crontab & cp

Regards

Re: script help

Ragni Singh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:36:45 GMT

Thanks, I will be using the find command like such...

find /home/xx/* -type f -mtime +5 -exec gzip {} \;.

This will locate the remove all files over 5 days old.

This will also touch the current days files so what can I do here so it doesn't touch the most current days file.

Re: script help

Ragni Singh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:49:48 GMT

okay, more to this. In /var/log/pgsql/*, I would only like to select the *.log files created in the last 7 days and to gzip them into the single archive for the week.

HOw can this be done.

Re: script help

Ragni Singh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:09:14 GMT

I will re-phrase and submit my question again.