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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron job every Friday except 4th Post 302415438 by rab on Thursday 22nd of April 2010 03:13:07 PM
Old 04-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
Any solution will need to know when the last monthly backup ran or when the next monthly backup is scheduled to run, perhaps by having that info stored in a file by the monthly backup process. With that info in hand, it should be easy enough for the daily to decide if it should run on any given friday.

Regards,
Alister
Good point.

Perhaps adding into the monthly backup script a touch command to create a file with todays date +28 days.

Then on the call script in the cron check to see if that date matches todays date? Would this work?

I'm not so sure on the syntax for this though, or if it is possible (I imagine it is though).

Thanks!
Rab
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

monthly

monthly(8)						      System Manager's Manual							monthly(8)

NAME

       monthly - httpd log rotation for wwwstat

SYNOPSIS

       monthly

DESCRIPTION

       THIS PROGRAM MUST ONLY BE RUN ONCE PER MONTH!  DURING THE FIRST WEEK It assumes a lot, like that you use wwwstat and archive your logfiles
       once per month.	You will need to configure it for your server before it can be used.

       Reads the logfile (assumed to contain more than one month's worth of WWW common logfile entries) and moves the prior month's entries into a
       separate file.  The new file is created on TMPDIR (to avoid filling up the disk), compressed using gzip, and then moved to the archive
       directory.  The program also restarts the httpd server.

SEE ALSO

       crontab(1), httpd(1m), perl(1), wwwstat(1), splitlog(1), wwwerrs(8), oldlog2new(8)

       More info and the latest version of monthly can be obtained from

	    http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/
	     ftp://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/

       If you have any suggestions, bug reports, fixes, or enhancements, please join the <wwwstat-users@ics.uci.edu> mailing list by sending e-
       mail with "subscribe" in the subject of the message to the request address <wwwstat-users-request@ics.uci.edu>.	The list is archived at
       the above address.

								 18 November 2004							monthly(8)
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