Seem simple enough, will have a play but it won't help my scripting skills
I found the online Cron autoconfigure useful, you enter when and how
frequent you want to run the script and it will give the correct format
to enter into crontab. Used to have a nice GUI for Cron which was great,
but cant remember what it was called now and can't find it online.
Tim H
On 22/04/2025 12:34, Peter Merchant wrote:
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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