Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

[Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote:
> 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log 
> /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah > 
> /var/log/mplayer.log 2>&1
> 
> This command will create a new log every day, and keep yesterdays log 
> too, but will lose all older logs.

First you remove /var/log/mplayer.log; then you move the now
non-existing /var/log/mplayer.log to mplayer.yesterday... I don't
think that's going to work. :)

I suggest making it "rm -f /var/log/mplayer.yesterday" or skipping
that part completely.

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