On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 01:27 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I have the following in my root crontab on my webserver: > > 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log > /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log > > MY.log > 4 2 1 * * * mv /var/log/apache2/MY.log /var/log/apache2/my.log > 5 5 1 * * * webalizer > > Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. > > Now, I can go in and to this manually, > mergelog my.log access.log other_vhosts_access.log > MY.log > # to merge the existing merged log with the new logs > the > mv MY.log my.log > to move the newly merged log to my.log (which webalizer is configured to > read) > run webalizer > profit. > > Why can't cron do it without my intervention? > > ./tony > -- > http://www.tonybaldwin.me > all tony, all the time! > >
May be its because of $PATH inside cron. It will better if you use full path of "mergelog". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/blu0-smtp208fd6246dad94e84f6692ae...@phx.gbl
