Scripting audit log saves

[Linda Card]

We have to save our audit logs (policy). I am not very good at scripting but I was thinking that daily I could create a directory with the date in the directory name and then just tar the /.secure/etc/ directory to the
"dated" directory. I could use root's cron to perform this process. Crude but hopefully effective. But I cannot find a reference to creating a directory with the date in the name.

Does anybody know how to do this?
mkdir audit-[today's date} ????

Linda

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

try

#/usr/bin/sh
TODAY_DATE=`/usr/bin/date +%m%d%Y`
DIR_NAME=audit-$TODAY_DATE
WORK_DIR=/some_dir_where_you_have_space

mkdir $WORK_DIR/$DIR_NAME

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Linda Card]

Sanjay,
Thank you. It worked great.

Linda