Re: error in Cron

According to Keith Kippen:
>
>Does anyone have any idea why this command runs when bashed but won't run once the time is added and run in Cron?
>

Because cron is running things under /bin/sh and it does not
understand bash syntax. You probably want to make a short shell
script that performs the rolling of the log for you and just call that
from cron. Below is a cut of a bit of a script that I use to roll the
logs in the manner that you want (actually, it is from a hacked over
version of a script from cache-stats):

#!/bin/sh
#
SQUIDDIR=/local/squid
SQUIDBIN=${SQUIDDIR}/bin
LOGDIR=${SQUIDDIR}/logs

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/access.log.$DATE

echo "$SQUIDBIN/squid -k rotate (and sleeping 90 seconds) ..."
$SQUIDBIN/squid -k rotate
sleep 90
mv $LOGDIR/access.log.0 $LOGFILE

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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