Cron Job Newbie help - Checkpoint Firewall mgmt server cleaning up logs

superman100

Can someone help me finalize this cron job. The goal is to have fully automated cron job which runs weeknights @ 4am doing a search for any logs older than 50 days and larger than 1mb and deletes them. 0 4 * * 1,2,3,4,5 find /opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/log -size +1000k -mtime +50 -name "*.log" -exec rm -r {} \; Logs are located in the following directory /opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/log

Verities

So if you want to create a cron job for a specific user (other than yourself) you can do:

sudo crontab -e -u username

If you look at the man pages you can see some explanations on how to configure times/dates:

man 5 crontab

You can do a simple 1-5 to cover weekdays:

0 4 * * 1-5 find /opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/log -size +1000k -mtime +50 -name "*.log" -exec rm -r {} \;

If you want to add a user its just:

useradd username

To set the password

passwd username

Never used "Gai", can't help you there.

JockVSJock

xargs is replacing exec, so you could write something like this under whatever user's crontab

0 4 * * 1,2,3,4,5 find /opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/log -size +1000K -mtime +50 -name ".log" | xargs rm -r 

Less code, if your into that.

IMO, run it from the CLI first, and once you are satisfied, then place it into a cron job.


http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/12/xargs-examples/

xargs: How To Control and Use Command Line Arguments

Verities

Did you not read my post? Its literally in the second line.

JockVSJock

You can either

crontab -l 

To list current cron jobs tied to what user you are logged in as...

and

crontab -e 

To them modifications to that user's crontab.

However depending on who is administering that system, crontab maybe blocked by either cron.allow or cron.deny.