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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Cron Job Post 302553518 by coolmaddy on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 10:20:15 PM
Old 09-07-2011
Hello Jim,

Thank you for your reply.There is a script which backs up all xen-servers to a specified folder on network. I would like to use cron to check if backups are done on daily basis, if that is possible. To be honest, I have not used cron before but I am just trying to familiarise the commands by looking at different tutorials.
 

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strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program SYNOPSIS
strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -aage The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option. -dlogdir A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option. EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample of using the strclean command. This example has the same result as running strclean with no arguments: example% strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3 FILES
/var/adm/streams/error.* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5) STREAMS Programming Guide NOTES
strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis. SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 strclean(1M)
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