[SUSE] The user crontab doesn't work

thomas2004ch · 01-19-2022, 04:35 AM

Hi all,

My OS is the "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)". I've created a user crontab as follow:

Code:

MAILTO=myname@mycom.com
01 01 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -l /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.log -s /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.status /home/se4711/insign-easy/conf/logrotate-insign-easy

And the '/home/se4711/insign-easy/conf/logrotate-insign-easy' looks as follow:

Code:

/home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/catalina.out
/home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/*.log
{
    compress
    dateext
    rotate 2
    daily
    missingok
    copytruncate
}

This means, everyday at 01:01 the logs under /home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/ should be zipped and rotated. But it doesn't work.

Can someone help?

Regards

petelq · 01-19-2022, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas2004ch

Hi all,

My OS is the "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)". I've created a user crontab as follow:

Code:

MAILTO=myname@mycom.com
01 01 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -l /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.log -s /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.status /home/se4711/insign-easy/conf/logrotate-insign-easy

And the '/home/se4711/insign-easy/conf/logrotate-insign-easy' looks as follow:

Code:

/home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/catalina.out
/home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/*.log
{
    compress
    dateext
    rotate 2
    daily
    missingok
    copytruncate
}

This means, everyday at 01:01 the logs under /home/se4711/insign-easy/logs/ should be zipped and rotated. But it doesn't work.

Can someone help?

Regards

I don't use suse enterprise but I assume it has some similarities with opensuse. I'm also not sure of the wording of the rest of you command but I'm pretty certain you have to run /sbin/<executable> as root.

thomas2004ch · 01-19-2022, 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petelq

I don't use suse enterprise but I assume it has some similarities with opensuse. I'm also not sure of the wording of the rest of you command but I'm pretty certain you have to run /sbin/<executable> as root.

1.
What is /sbin/<executable>? By me there the /usr/sbin/logrotate. Maybe this is because you use OpenSuse.

2.
I also try run the /usr/sbin/logrotate as root but it doesn't help.

uteck · 01-19-2022, 09:18 AM

Your command line arguments are a bit long and it might be stopping after /usr/sbin/logrotate and ignoring the rest, so include the entire command you want crontab to run in quotes.

Code:

01 01 * * * "/usr/sbin/logrotate -l /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.log -s /home/se4711/insign-easy/temp/logrotate.status /home/se4711/insign-easy/conf/logrotate-insign-easy"

If that does not work, try the commands in a shell script and make sure it works. Then have cron call that script.