setting up cron

[cleansedbb]

I've never set up a cron or script. how would I do the following

I have
/var/

http://www/html/site1/

/var/

http://www/html/site2/

/var/

http://www/html/site3/

/var/

http://www/html/site4/

in each I have a log.html which stores visitors. I want to archive it daily like
zip /var/

http://www/html/site1/log.html

log1.zip and then next day do log2.zip etc.

also I would like to change a file to .log so I can view it through a log complier program. so maybe
cp /var/

http://www/html/site1/log.html

log1.log

after zipping I will want to remove the file and put a clean one up.
so maybe
rm /var/

http://www/html/site1/log.html

touch /var/

http://www/html/site1/log.html

or maybe
cp /var/backup/log.html /var/

http://www/html/site1/

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If its redhat, the cron mechanics are very easy. For a daily run you only need to put your script in the /etc/cron.daily directory. The main crontab calls every script in that directory using the 'run-parts' routine. The script itself would be indentical to one run directly from the command prompt - although you should make sure that you use full paths, etc. This assumes that you have the cron daemon active which you would almost certainly have by default.

If its not redhat, then you probably just need the additional step of creating the crontab entry -->

http://nodevice.com/sections/ManIndex/man0206.html

As for the actual code ..... that's another subject really.

Hope this helps

 

[cleansedbb]

ok, do you have a site on writing the code?
it is redhat 7.2

 

[kd4pba]

If you have KDE installed, you can also take a peek at kcron, I find it pretty useful when I am in a hurry to test or setup something as a cron job.

 

[cleansedbb]

thanks I will try that.