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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Small College homework Post 302577705 by spiffyiffy on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 05:37:32 PM
Old 11-29-2011
Small College homework
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

My work is to write or design a script in bash shell script format for the Linux O/S Debian distro "Knoppix 6.7".


What the script needs to do is basically delete temporary files and back up data from one directory/folder to another designated Backup.

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:



3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):


Code:
#!/bin/bash
#This script will automatically delete temporary files
rm -rf /tmp/*
rm -rf/var/tmp/*
fsck -A
exit

Code:
#! /bin/bash
# Variables
location=/home/veiset
directory=Documents
backuplocation=/media/veiset/backup
log=~/backup.log
echo -e “\nBackup started: `date`” >> $log
if [ -d $backuplocation ]; then
mkdir -p $backuplocation/`date +%y%m%d`
cd $location
tar -cvvf $backuplocation/`date +%y%m%d`/data.`date +%H%M%S`.tar.gz $directory
echo ” completed: `date`” >> $log
cp $log $backuplocation/backup.log
echo -e “\n — Backup completed –\n”;
else
echo ” FAILED: `date`” >> $log
echo -e “\n– WARNING: –”
echo -e “– BACKUP FAILED –\n”;
fi
exit

I'm not too sure on what else to do, and if I am doing it right!?

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
wanstead sixth form
london
england
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 11-29-2011 at 06:43 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

faxcron

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

NAME

       faxcron - HylaFAX routine maintenance script

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/faxcron [ -n ] [ -l lastrun ]

DESCRIPTION

       faxcron	is  a  command	script	that  does  routine upkeep tasks in a HylaFAX spooling directory hierarchy.  This script is intended to be
       invoked from cron(8) on behalf of the fax user (often the ``fax'' user is uucp) once a day, with the standard output sent by  mail  to  the
       HylaFAX administrator.  For example, the following crontab might be set up for the fax user:
	 25   23    *	 *    *   sh /usr/sbin/faxcron | mail FaxMaster

       The faxcron script does the following work:

       o  report statistics for facsimile transmitted since the last time faxcron was run.

       o  report statistics for facsimile transmitted in the past week.

       o  report statistics for facsimile received since the last time faxcron was run.

       o  report statistics for facsimile received in the past week.

       o  report any recent calls that failed suspiciously and return the associated trace log;

       o  purge data that is 30 days or older from the remote machine information directory;

       o  delete information that is 30 days or older from session trace log files;

       o  remove files from the tmp directory that are older than 1 day;

       o  remove files in the received facsimile queue that are 7 days or older;

       o  report sites that are currently having jobs rejected; and

       o  force all session log files to be owned by the fax user and kept with protection mode 644.

OPTIONS

       -n	 Forces faxcron to run without updating any files.

       -l lastrun
		 Forces  the  notion  of  the last time that faxcron was run to be lastrun.  The value of lastrun is a date and time string of the
		 form ``MM/DD/YY HH:MM'' (the date(1) format string ``%D %H:%M'').

       -info n	 Set the expiration time for data in the info database to be n days.

       -log n	 Set the expiration time for session log data to be n days.

       -rcv n	 Set the expiration time for files in the received facsimile queue to be n days.

       -tmp n	 Set the expiration time for files in the tmp directory to be n days.

       -mode m	 Set the file protection mode for session logs to m (a command line argument to chmod(1)).

NOTES

       This script requires nawk(1) or gawk(1) and a date (1) program that supports the ``+format'' option.

       If session logs are to be kept private this script must be modified to filter out sensitive information such as calling card numbers.   (It
       should also be run with ``-mode 0600'' so that session log files are not publicly readable.)

FILES

       /var/spool/hylafax		      spooling area
       /var/spool/hylafax/status/lastrun      timestamp of last run
       /usr/sbin/xferfaxstats		      for generating transmit statistics
       /usr/sbin/recvstats		      for generating receive statistics
       /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxcronXXXX     temporary file for truncating session logs
       /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxlogXXXX      temporary file for logs of failed calls

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), faxq(8), faxgetty(8), faxsend(8), xferfaxstats(8), recvstats(8), hylafax-server(5)

								   May 12, 1996 							FAXCRON(8)
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