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Re: [FW-1] Log switching with a Cron Job---Please Help
- To: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: [FW-1] Log switching with a Cron Job---Please Help
- From: Hal Dorsman <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:13:57 -0700
- Reply-to: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 <[email protected]>
- Sender: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 <[email protected]>
- Thread-index: AcHcs9ZCzkFTlAX8T+ee9ra4Eax9RAAAIdsQ
- Thread-topic: Re: [FW-1] Log switching with a Cron Job---Please Help
Rainer is correct. Don't put the command in the crontab.
Write the script, test it manually, then call the script
from cron.
Hal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] Log switching with a Cron Job---Please Help
>
>
> Hello,
>
> one guess: different shell than cron?
>
> Solution: Why don't you just write a shell script and simply call the
> script via cron? I can send you mine if you can't do it for yourself.
>
> regards
> Rainer
>
>
> --
> Rainer Freis Leiter
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> You don't know what real time-critical software is until you're
> responsible for the paychecks of a battalion of heavily armed
> Marines. (somebody in alt.sysadmin.recovery)
>
>
>
>
>
> "Joseph J. Gallo" <[email protected]>
> Sent by: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
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> 05.04.02 16:00
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> Subject: [FW-1] Log switching with a Cron
> Job---Please Help
>
>
> I have the following CRON Job set up to run on FW-1 daily:
>
> 59 11 * * * /opt/pkg/FW/bin/fw logswitch old.log (This works fine in
> switching out the log file)
> 05 0 * * * mv /opt/pkg/FW/log/old.log /var/test/logs/`date
> +"%m%d%y-%H%M"`.log (This line generates an error file---see below)
> "
> "
> "
> "
>
> When the cron job runs I get the following error message in
> my inbox the
> next day:
> "Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution"
>
> If I run the line manually from the console: mv /opt...../old.log
> /var.../`date +"%m..."`.log It works fine.
>
> Am I setting up the cron job incorrectly? Or should I be using a
> different way to switch out the logs?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Joe
>
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