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kinetik · 01-06-2006, 03:47 AM

I don't know if this is a real programming issue...

I'm trying to write a script that will cd to a specific directory, then perform an ls -lahS >> logsizes.txt. Then cd to another specific directory and again ls -lahS >> logsizes.txt.

I tried it likke this:

cd /data/specific_directory1/logs/
ls -lahS >> /logchecks/logsizes.txt
cd /data/specific_directory2/logs/
ls -lahS >> /logchecks/logsizes.txt

It's not working though... It keeps saying "cd: /data/specific_directory1/logs/, no such file or directory"

Any advice?

Hko · 01-06-2006, 04:08 AM

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It's not working though... It keeps saying "cd: /data/specific_directory1/logs/, no such file or directory"

Any advice?

Check if the directory exists, and if you've got 'rx' permissions on it.

kinetik · 01-06-2006, 05:12 AM

The diretories doesn't exist actually (I'm feeling pretty stupid right now!)...

There's still a problem though, and that's that the first directory does exist, with a mountain of data in there, yet this doesn't reflect in the txt file...?

Hko · 01-06-2006, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by kinetik

There's still a problem though, and that's that the first directory does exist, with a mountain of data in there, yet this doesn't reflect in the txt file...?

Do you mean the files are not listed in the txt file? Then the user executing your script probably doesn't have read permission on the directory.

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What is "The most beautiful city in the world"?
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kinetik · 01-06-2006, 06:38 AM

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Hko, that's a bit of a sensitive topic. I don't want to reveal where it is since I don't want to step on someone else's toes if it turns out it's not the same city as the one they reside in...

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But back to the problem: The user seems to have all the necessary rights (sudo).

Do you think I should add sudo before all the commands?

graemef · 01-06-2006, 06:44 AM

or write permissions to /logchecks/logsizes.txt

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Hko · 01-09-2006, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by kinetik

Do you think I should add sudo before all the commands?

If your script needs the rights you granted by /etc/sudoers to access that directory, then yes, I'm sure you need to add "sudo" before the command that runs the script.