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

superman100 · June 2016

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 · June 2016

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 · June 2016

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 · July 2016

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

JockVSJock · July 2016

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.

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

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