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Old 03-31-2017
/etc/cron.daily script is not being executed
Hi All

I have created a file in /etc/cron.daily on redhat linux 7.3 version host
called applicationscript

Code:
cat applictaionscript
#!/bin/bash
/prod/data/routine.sh

Code:
cat /prod/data/routine.sh
#!/bin/bash
#details
regular=/prod/data/jboss/logs
backup=/prod/data/logs
#echo "Moving logs"
find $regular -name "*.log" -mtime +15 -exec mv -f {} $backup \;
find $backup -name "*.log" -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;


this /prod/data/routine.sh is executing from /prod/data/ but not auto executing from /etc/cron.daily

I checked cat /etc/anacrontab it is all data needed

Please suggest if I am missing something to set up right ?
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-01-2017 at 02:49 AM.. Reason: Fixed ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 03-31-2017
Please use code tags, not icode tags, use the Image button.

It's possible that your script is not working because find is not in $PATH, cron gives a very minimal PATH.

For a script this simple running find with an absolute path would do.
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Old 03-31-2017
Hi Corona688

Could you tell once again ? I used full path of the script in /etc/cron.daily/applictaionscript
# 4  
Old 03-31-2017
Corona688 was talking about the find command, not your crontab entry.
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