script for activity log

[visvid]

Wonder if anyone can help ?

Been asked by one of my customers to create a script to do the following:


a script to copy the activity.log to activity.log.old on the 1st of every month and create a new log for the current proceesses to write to.

I am not a script writer, so any help would be gratefully appreciated


Cheers

visvid

 

[olded]

Visvid:

There's any number of ways to do this rather simple job. Here's mine:

#!/bin/ksh

# nullactivity.ss: cd to the directory where the activity log is
# and set umask to make new activity log read/write for everyone.
# mv the acitivity log to a back up with a date extension and finally
# create a new activity log
cd totheactivitylogdir
umask 000 # file is read/write for everybody
mv activity.log activity.log.old.`date '+%m%d%y'`
> activity.log # null or 0 length file
# end script

If you want to run this on the first of the month, create an entry in cron. The following line in the cron:

0 3 1 * * nullactiivity.ss

runs the job at 0300 on the first of every month. If you don't know how to set the cron, let me know and I'll post something.

Regards,


Ed