Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ben Russo wrote:
Maurits van Rees wrote:
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote:
3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log 
/var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah > 
/var/log/mplayer.log 2>&1

This command will create a new log every day, and keep yesterdays log 
too, but will lose all older logs.

First you remove /var/log/mplayer.log; then you move the now
non-existing /var/log/mplayer.log to mplayer.yesterday... I don't
think that's going to work. :)
I suggest making it "rm -f /var/log/mplayer.yesterday" or skipping
that part completely.
Yeah, now that you mention it, I also don't think "mplayer -command 
-options blah blah" is going to work either.

:-)


That's why it is a script in my case. But still what has been working 
for 15 years is nice to have discovered. ;-)
H.

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