On 21/04/2025 18:27, Tim wrote:
Good evening on this damp squid of Easter
I will admit that scripting is not my thing but at times I decide I am going to
try and improve my scripting (it is basic).
So here what my issue is, I want to delete some .log file from /var/log so I
have a very simple one line script in home/mit/scripts called deletefile.sh
Here is the one liner
find /var/log/ -name "*.log" -type f -mtime +7 -delete
(I have no doubt there a 101 ways to write a one line for this but this is the
one I am using)
So my understanding is that it will delete any file with an extension of .log
which is older than 7 days
But these are log files in /var/log which requires root access to delete
So if I run my script from cmd line as me a user I get an error message
permission denied.
/mit@Thinky:~/scripts$ ./deletefile.sh
bash: ./deletefile.sh: Permission denied/
If I run the script as sudo I get command not found??? What command, because I
running as sudo should I be running the script
/mit@Thinky:~/scripts$ sudo ./deletefile.sh
[sudo] password for mit:
sudo: ./deletefile.sh: command not found/
Now I thought that using sudo gave me root access on what ever task I am doing from my
own "Home" but that error make me think I need to run the script from root home.
Where have I gone wrong??
Tim H
Periodically I run
sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=2d
This clears old log files and frees space. Ideally I need to find out how to
put this into monthly crontab. Lots of learning left to do.
Peter M.
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