Making a certain cron job

[Jason Lieurance]

Hello,

Thank you for the response. Does the date part (Date=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`) go as part
of the cron job? Thanks again.

-- 
Jason

David Fleck said:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jason Lieurance wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use cronolog to rotate our apache log files so are log files look like so:
>>
>> 2003-09-07-error_log
>>
>> Now, I want to make a cron job to mail the log to our webmaster every day but I
>> having terrible visualizing how to do it. If I do 'cat /var/log/http/2003-09-* |
>> mail -s log web at ourdomain.com' he'll get every log of the month not to mention
>> next month I'll have to edit the job. I know I'll need to use variables but I'm
>> drawing a blank. Please advise.
>
> Date=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`
>
> cat /var/log/http/${Date}-error_log | mail -s log web at ourdomain.com
>
>
> ?
>
> --
> David Fleck
> dcf at aracnet.com
>
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