Josk
msg:909221 | 9:59 am on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Do you have any other details...? i.e, what have you put in crontab, what script and script type are you using..? Do you have the file locations correct...? etc, etc...
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zoran
msg:909222 | 11:41 am on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Try something like "minute hour dayOfMonth month dayOfWeek command" in your crontab file with your preferred hour/time and a "command" like: /bin/tar -czf /backupdir/`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d-\%H-\%M`.tar.gz /path/to/file
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kenta
msg:909223 | 5:30 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I usually find these things helpful:. I put all the commands in shell scripts/perlscripts. Seems to make things easier for me to look at, then I have the command handy if I need to execute it outside of cron I make a text file with all my cron info i.e.:
#Min Hour Day DayMonth DayWeek
* 1 * * * /home/kenta/backup.sh
5 * * * * /home/kenta/popmail.pl >/dev/null
Then dump it into my crontab by typing "crontab filename.txt" and view it by typing "crontab -l" Making changes to filename.txt and doing the command again with just the filename overwrites the current crontab. I assume you may already know the syntax of what the *'s and #'s mean in cron... If not, let us know.
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gutabo
msg:909224 | 7:03 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Sorry, we're using a FreeBSD Unix server. Anyway, the only thing I'm missing is the "comand" part, cause we need to ZIP the log file and remove the access_log file inmediately afterwards. We want to make this procedure daily. PLEASE HELP ME!</unix n00b>
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zoran
msg:909225 | 6:25 am on Oct 8, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Sorry, no experience with FreeBSD. You may want to try
[unixreview.com...]
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gutabo
msg:909226 | 1:13 am on Oct 10, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Ok, I digged and found a very useful(and easy to use) tool: savelogs. It gzips your logs and removes them leaving a 0KB file behind if you want(just what I wanted). And thanks to your help, I configured a cron job. It was something like this: 5 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/savelogs --config=/path/to/savelogs.conf Thank you!
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