Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:44:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason Lieurance" <jason@vipersystems.biz> To: <david.fleck@mchsi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a certain cron job Message-ID: <14243.205.240.37.184.1062989058.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> In-Reply-To: <20030907212701.K1087@grond.sourballs.org> References: <13696.205.240.37.184.1062986048.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> <20030907212701.K1087@grond.sourballs.org>
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Hello,
Thank you for the response. Does the date part (Date=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`) go as part
of the cron job? Thanks again.
--
Jason
David Fleck said:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jason Lieurance wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use cronolog to rotate our apache log files so are log files look like so:
>>
>> 2003-09-07-error_log
>>
>> Now, I want to make a cron job to mail the log to our webmaster every day but I
>> having terrible visualizing how to do it. If I do 'cat /var/log/http/2003-09-* |
>> mail -s log web@ourdomain.com' he'll get every log of the month not to mention
>> next month I'll have to edit the job. I know I'll need to use variables but I'm
>> drawing a blank. Please advise.
>
> Date=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`
>
> cat /var/log/http/${Date}-error_log | mail -s log web@ourdomain.com
>
>
> ?
>
> --
> David Fleck
> dcf@aracnet.com
>
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