Re: cron job mergelog failure

[Tony Baldwin <tony@tonybaldwin.org>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:35:44AM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > > 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...]
> > > > Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed.
> > > 
> > > > Now, I can go in and to this manually, 
> > > > Why can't cron do it without my intervention?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What reason does the email give for the failure?
> > > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > mv: cannot stat `/var/log/apache2/MY.log': No such file or directory
> > Clearly not merging logs and creating the MY.log file.
> > I will try with the fully path and see happens tonight.
> 
> Your first cron job:
> 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log /var/log/apache2/my.log > MY.log
> 
> This does not run with /var/log/apache2/ as $PWD, so MY.log won't be
> created in that directory.  Try being explicit about the path to MY.log,
> e.g. /var/log/apache2/MY.log
> 
> noah
> 

Aha!
I'm guessing this is precisely the (rather so obvious it hid in plain
site) problem.

(senility...it's my only excuse...I turned 30 for the 13th time on
Monday)

Thanks!

./tony
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