Log date

[Mario Frechette]

Nils Kassube a écrit :
> Mario Frechette wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to get a date in my log file name for a script that runs
>> daily in cron and  i can see in syslog
>> that the sript runs but no date on the log file
>>
>> this is how it looks in crontab
>>
>> 43 12  *   *   1-5   /bin sh rsync.sh >/home/eric/backup.log.`date
>> "+%d%m%y"`
>>
>> should I put some commands in the script itself ?
>>     
>
> It seems you can't use the "`" syntax because a crontab is not a script. 
> If you had installed the mail command, you would have received a mail 
> with the problem every time cron failed to execute your command. 
> Therefore, the log should be generated by your script. Another option 
> would be to install the mail command (e.g. package mailx). Then you would 
> receive the output of the script as a mail.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
thanks for the mail command tip i will use it

but what I would like is  to create a log file with a date in the name 
of the file that would look like  ( backup.log.`date +%d%m%y`) format or 
anything near that
 I succeded to create a file named backup.log in the /home DIR

but  how to do that in a bash script ?


Mario







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