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Review of a crontab script to add timestamps to minutely runs; any suggestions?

I've got a crontab job set to run minutely as such: * * * * * /home/username/public_html/domain.tld/production/scripts/cron_runner.sh My goal is to add some timestamps to output from cron so I can ...
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How to automatically clean up date stamped logs

I have an apache web server with various virtual hosts. Each virtual host logs to date stamped files using cronolog. The result is that I end up with a lot of files like this: ----rw-r-- 1 root ...
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I want to save events or logs grabbed using Inotify to a file

I need your help - using Inotify I am watching a directory for the changes like create, delete, rename and move. I want these event to be logged in a file and I want to run Inotify as a service.
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Log all commands run by admins on production servers

It is company policy for admins to login to the servers via a personal username, and then run sudo -i to become root. Upon running sudo -i, sudo will create an environmental variable called ...
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Sending output from php script called from bash script to syslog

Sending output from php script called from bash script to syslog Im trying to create a bash script (to be called by a cron job) which calls a php file (which I have not made). Calling the php file is ...
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Make cron log rsync only if there was transfer

I have this crontab running every 5 minutes: date >> ~/18/rsync.log rsync -vaz user@r18:~/assets ~/18 >> ~/18/rsync.log 2>&1 It adds this to the log file every 5 minutes: Thu ...
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logging with named pipes

I have a lot of code I need to daemonize that prints to standard out. I am thinking of using the following shell script to create a named pipe so I can nohup a process while redirecting its output to ...
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Not able to delete lot of files at once in linux

I have run the following command, from inside of these log folders. But it looks like each folder will take infinite time. find . -type f -exec rm -v {} \; rwxrwxr-x 2 root root ...
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how to write a script that only acts on new log entries

I feel like this should be a simple thing but I am having a hard time figuring it out. I am trying to write a script that will monitor one of the apache log files and take some specific action. But ...
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Adding a timestamp to bash script log

I have a constantly running script that I output to a log file: script.sh >> /var/log/logfile I'd like to add a timestamp before each line that is appended to the log. Like: Sat Sep 10 21:33:06 ...
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nginx logs move to backup location

I have 3 nginx web servers which make big access.log log files. I configured logrotate to rotate them when the size reaches 100mb and gzip them. now i would like to move all the *.gz files at night ...
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Logging a “persons” activity in Linux

So I've read many of the posts related to this and have just come up more confused than before. There are recommendations for various tools including ttyrec, snoopy, acct, rootsh, sudosh, ttyrpld, ...
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What to do if wget's progress:mega doen't cut it anymore?

I have script for downloading large files in a queue. Now I would really appreciate it, if I had a decent log. Specifying the -o or -a option is apparently specially made for that, however as of the ...
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Compare Error logs across service fleet, find unique errors

I'm looking for a tool where I can list the servers to check, the location of the file and it would return a list of the most common errors across those servers (say like 2 or 3 servers for report ...
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How do I clear history of the bash logs? Also, do not log any of my users' bash logs?

How do I do that? I want to clear everything as well as not log anything from now on.
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Bash edit file and keep last 500 lines

I am looking to create a cron job that opens a directory loops through all the logs i have created and deletes all lines but keep the last 500 for example. I was thinking of something along the lines ...
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How can I record the running time of particular commands in Linux (specifically bash)?

I'm trying to collect some stats on how much time is spent 'waiting' for certain fairly short running tasks so I can justify purchase of some automated tools. I've written bash function wrappers ...
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Bash snippet for apache error log to show what URLS are causing 404s?

I have a standard apache error log file. I would like to see what URLs are causing 404s, since I have moved this site around and I want to find bad links. Can anyone recommend a bash snippet that will ...