On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] > > > Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. > > > > > Now, I can go in and to this manually, > > > Why can't cron do it without my intervention? > > > > > > What reason does the email give for the failure? > > Chris > > > mv: cannot stat `/var/log/apache2/MY.log': No such file or directory > Clearly not merging logs and creating the MY.log file. > I will try with the fully path and see happens tonight.
Your first cron job: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log > MY.log This does not run with /var/log/apache2/ as $PWD, so MY.log won't be created in that directory. Try being explicit about the path to MY.log, e.g. /var/log/apache2/MY.log noah
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