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From: Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Log retention query
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 20:57:13 +0100
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On 2025-02-02 12:12:07 +0000, Paul Brindusa wrote:
> I had the exact same query as Junwang proposed.

Assuming that by "query" you mean the crontab entry:

Well, if if was *exactly* the same it's unlikely to work since you
probably don't have a directory literally called "/path/to/logs". If you
made the obvious substitution, it should work provided it runs with
appropriate privileges.

What is the output if you remove the «-exec rm {} \;» bit? What happens
if you reduce the mtime?


> Was mega upset that I could not get the cronjobs to work, and from what I
> can tell from @Laurenz's  response above we have the names of the logs
> customised to posgtres-%d-%m-%y.

Earlier you wrote that the pattern was actually
«postgresql-%Y-%m-%d.log». «find ... -name "*.log"» would find that but
of course not «posgtres-%d-%m-%y».

        hp

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