Need help from pros in shell script

aLiVe · 08-08-2004, 04:17 AM

I am new to linux and so unfortunately i was ask to create a script that can zip up the web logs that are generated by Apache and Tomcat web server. After zipping up the logs, it clears the old logs and send the zipped logs to a ftp server. Lastly, the script has to be executed once a month. I really have no clue on how to do it. Can anyone help me?

Cedrik · 08-08-2004, 04:50 AM

I would try something like this :

Code:

#!/bin/bash

TEMP_DIR="/home/tmp"

FTP_HOST="ftp.myhost.com"
FTP_USER="me"
FTP_PASSWORD="password"
FTP_DIR="/path/to/backup/logs"
FTP_URL="ftp://$FTP_USER:$FTP_PASSWORD@$FTP_HOST$FTP_DIR/"
FTP_UP=

APACHE_LOGS_DIR=/var/log/apache

cd $TEMP_DIR

for log in `ls $APACHE_LOGS_DIR`; do
    LOG_NAME=$(basename $log)
    zip -j "$LOG_NAME.zip" $log
    FTP_UP="$FTP_UP  -T $LOG_NAME.zip $FTP_URL"
done

curl  -w '%{size_upload} bytes uploaded\n' $FTP_UP

Then I would save it as log_backup.sh for example, and edit crontab like :

Code:

30 12 1 * * /path/to/log_backups.sh

So it will run the first day of the month at 12:30 am

I did not add line to delete old log files and zip files so you can test the script before final stage