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Old 07-16-2003
compress script
Hi,

How wud I script a particular log file to be compressed at a particular time and to be uncompressed after say 2 hours ?

Im on a aix 3.2 box .

file to be compressed --- > # pwd
# /zssps/sps06/slogfile

Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-16-2003
I would imagine you could set up a cron job for each action - one that compresses, one that uncompresses.. Or have one cron job to run a script that compresses, sleeps in the background for two hours, then uncompresses..

Here's a tutorial - see if this maybe is what you want:

http://www.webmasters-central.com/t/cron.shtml
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Old 07-17-2003
now that link really helped... thanks again Oombera :|
# 4  
Old 07-17-2003
make a file :

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# compress_file is written to compress a file and decompress after two hours.
# The time is tuneable by changing $time. $time is in seconds so two hours is 60 * 120(minutes)

file=$1
time="7200"

if [ -z "$file" ]
 then
  echo "Usage: /usr/local/bin/compress_file <file to compress>"
  exit 1
fi

/usr/bin/compress $file

sleep $time

/usr/bin/uncompress $file

added code tags for readability --oombera
Last edited by oombera; 02-18-2004 at 02:39 PM..
 
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