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Operating Systems Solaris Cron job is not running Post 302597361 by SunilB2011 on Friday 10th of February 2012 05:15:18 AM
Old 02-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Post output of:
Code:
tail -50 /var/cron/log

Following is the outpuit

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root@IDC4VASAPP07 # tail -50 /var/cron/log
<  root 5088 c Sat Feb 11 03:17:00 2012
<  root 5087 c Sat Feb 11 03:17:00 2012
>  CMD: /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5130 c Sat Feb 11 03:18:00 2012
>  CMD: date >> /var/tmp/log
>  root 5131 c Sat Feb 11 03:18:00 2012
<  root 5131 c Sat Feb 11 03:18:00 2012
<  root 5130 c Sat Feb 11 03:18:00 2012
>  CMD: /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5173 c Sat Feb 11 03:19:00 2012
>  CMD: date >> /var/tmp/log
>  root 5174 c Sat Feb 11 03:19:00 2012
<  root 5174 c Sat Feb 11 03:19:00 2012
<  root 5173 c Sat Feb 11 03:19:00 2012
>  CMD: /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5216 c Sat Feb 11 03:20:00 2012
>  CMD: date >> /var/tmp/log
>  root 5217 c Sat Feb 11 03:20:00 2012
<  root 5217 c Sat Feb 11 03:20:00 2012
<  root 5216 c Sat Feb 11 03:20:00 2012
>  CMD: /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5262 c Sat Feb 11 03:21:00 2012
>  CMD: date >> /var/tmp/log
>  root 5263 c Sat Feb 11 03:21:00 2012
<  root 5263 c Sat Feb 11 03:21:00 2012
<  root 5262 c Sat Feb 11 03:21:01 2012
>  CMD: /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5309 c Sat Feb 11 03:22:00 2012
>  CMD: date >> /var/tmp/log
>  root 5310 c Sat Feb 11 03:22:00 2012
<  root 5310 c Sat Feb 11 03:22:00 2012
<  root 5309 c Sat Feb 11 03:22:00 2012
>  CMD: /bin/ksh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5355 c Sat Feb 11 03:23:00 2012
<  root 5355 c Sat Feb 11 03:23:00 2012
>  CMD: /sbin/sh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5400 c Sat Feb 11 03:24:00 2012
<  root 5400 c Sat Feb 11 03:24:00 2012 rc=2
>  CMD: /sbin/sh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5430 c Sat Feb 11 03:25:00 2012
<  root 5430 c Sat Feb 11 03:25:00 2012 rc=2
>  CMD: /sbin/sh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5464 c Sat Feb 11 03:26:00 2012
<  root 5464 c Sat Feb 11 03:26:00 2012 rc=2
>  CMD: /sbin/sh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5497 c Sat Feb 11 03:27:00 2012
<  root 5497 c Sat Feb 11 03:27:00 2012 rc=2
>  CMD: /sbin/sh /var/tmp/r.sh
>  root 5531 c Sat Feb 11 03:28:00 2012
<  root 5531 c Sat Feb 11 03:28:00 2012 rc=2
You have new mail in /var/mail//root
root@IDC4VASAPP07 #











---------- Post updated at 03:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:36 PM ----------







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        Originally Posted by itkamaraj
        
        
        
      

    
use the absolute path for the files

 




Code:



mv /absolute/path/local0.log local0.log.$dt1
mv /absolute/path/local1.log local1.log.$dt1
mv /absolute/path/local2.log local2.log.$dt1






    




Still not working after using the absolute paths.

 




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root@IDC4VASAPP07 # cat r.sh
dt1=$(perl -e 'use POSIX;print strftime "%d-%m-%Y-%M",localtime time-86400;')
mv /var/tmp/local0.log /var/tmp/local0.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/local1.log /var/tmp/local1.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/local2.log /var/tmp/local2.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/local3.log /var/tmp/local3.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/local4.log /var/tmp/local4.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/local7.log /var/tmp/local7.log.$dt1
mv /var/tmp/snmpd.syslog /var/tmp/snmpd.syslog.$dt1
echo "ran at $dt1" >> /var/tmp/log
unset dt1
touch /var/tmp/local0.log
touch /var/tmp/local1.log
touch /var/tmp/local2.log
touch /var/tmp/local3.log
touch /var/tmp/local4.log
touch /var/tmp/local7.log
touch /var/tmp/snmpd.syslog
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