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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Script to rename file that was generated today and which starts with date Post 302837763 by bobby320 on Friday 26th of July 2013 04:37:27 PM
Old 07-26-2013
I changed the format of the scirpt, and added to crontab its not working, I see this error on the cron logs

someone please suggest.
Code:
#crontab -e
30 16 * * * mv $(find /data/sftp -name `date +%Y%m%d`_*.xml) Partner_`date +%Y_%m_%d.%H-%M-%S`.xml
#
#tail -f /var/log/cron
Jul 26 16:30:01 crond[20857]: (root) CMD (mv $(find /data/sftp -name `date +)
Jul 26 16:30:01 crond[20858]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)

Thanks,
 

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sarg-reports

SARG-REPORTS(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   SARG-REPORTS(1)

NAME

       sarg-reports - Daily/Weekly/Monthly squid usage reports creation tool

SYNOPSIS

       sarg-reports [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the sarg-reports command.

       sarg-reports is a script written to automate the SARG (a powerful squid log analyzer) reports and log management.  Sarg it self, provide to
       end user a generic interface to create reports based on squid access log (begin of log to current date).  sarg-reports is useful because it
       allow you to easly create and manage Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       manual
	      Create Manual report

       today  Create Today report

       daily  Create Daily report

       weekly Create Weely report

       monthly
	      Create Monthly report

CRONTAB

       If  you	want  the  reports can be generated automatically insert the following lines (the today report creation time depend mostly of your
       sarg server load average, tune it):

       PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
       00 08-18/1 * * * sarg-reports today
       00 00	  * * * sarg-reports daily
       00 01	  * * 1 sarg-reports weekly
       30 02	  1 * * sarg-reports monthly

       REMEMBER: if you use logrotate, configure it to rotate the logs within MONTHLY basis, AFTER sarg-reports created the monthly html report.

VARIABLES

       Check before using the sarg-reports that the following variables are set to file /etc/sarg/sarg.conf

       SARG
	      The sarg executable location

       CONFIG
	      The sarg main configuration file location

       HTMLOUT
	      Location where will be saved the reports

       PAGETITLE
	      The title of main index page

       LOGOIMG
	      Image logo to view in main index page

       LOGOLINK
	      HTTP web page link of logo

       DAILY
	      Word 'daily' translation, translate it to your language

       WEEKLY
	      Word 'weekly' translation, translate it to your language

       MONTHLY
	      Word 'monthly' translation, translate it to your language

       EXCLUDELOG1
	      Exclude text from cron emails (normally, sarg, during cron activity, if it don't find any valid records,

       EXCLUDELOG2
	      It will output an error message (usually on 'today' reports). I don't want to be warned by email about this, so, i wrote the  'text'
	      that will be never logged. This is useful to receive email of real problems only.

AUTHOR

       sarg-reports was written by Ugo Viti <ugo.viti@initzero.it>

       This manual page was written by Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   may 17, 2008 						   SARG-REPORTS(1)
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