Logging from cron
Tim
rsync at CyberCraftCorp.com
Tue Mar 23 18:20:18 GMT 2004
Hi Tim,
That worked. Thanks!!!
BTW, sorry about the automated message from my anti-spam system. I didn't realize that replies would include an individual subscriber's email. So I quickly created a separate email address for this list without the spam trap.
Thanks again,
Tim
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On 3/23/2004 at 12:59 PM Tim Conway wrote:
>"$rsynccommandline >$logfile 2>&1" is one way - use however many "v"s you
>need.
>If you want to accumulate the output of several invocations,
>"$rsynccommandline >>$logfile 2>&1"
>If you really want it in syslog
>"$rsynccommandline 2>&1 |logger $facility.$severity", and make sure you
>have syslog configured to put that where you want it.
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>Tim Conway
>Unix System Administration
>Contractor - IBM Global Services
>desk:3032734776
>conway at us.ibm.com
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>Hello,
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>I've just spent several hours going over several Google searches trying to
>find a way to configure rsync to log into a file named
>"/var/log/rsync.log". So far, every instance where I've found someone
>asking about rsync logging remained unanswered (which is kind of weird in
>itself).
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>As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to setup rsync as a
>daemon process so that it will read an rsync.confg. The problem is that I
>don't want to run rsync as a daemon process, and am not interested in
>working from a rsync.confg file if I can avoid it. My rsync command lines
>are being generated on the fly by a perl program running via cron, and
>then shelling the command to the OS (linux) and handshaking via SSH. This
>is working fine, but I need a log to determine what is causing rsync to
>shutdown before completing the full mirror of the server.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get a log generated from
>rsync running from the command line?
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>Many Thanks in Advance,
>Tim
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