From: John Horne (J.Horne@plymouth.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 07:33:37 EDT
Hello,
Has anyone got Solaris 9's logadm to work when using embedded quotes? I'm
basically trying to do something like:
/var/adm/backups -s 0b -b 'test -s /var/adm/backups || (echo | mailx -s
"Backup log is empty" root)'
which should test if the file is empty before rotating it. If it is empty
then email root; if not then just rotate the file.
However, trying to enter the command I get:
logadm -w /var/adm/backups -s 0b -b 'test -s /var/adm/backups ||
(echo | mailx -s "Backup log is empty" root)'
logadm: /etc/logadm.conf line 49: Error: Can't protect quotes in <test -s
/var/adm/backups || (echo | mailx -s "Backup log is empty" root)>
logadm: Error: bailing out due to command line errors
Use "logadm -h" for help.
No matter what combination of single quotes, double quotes and '\' I use, I
just cannot seem to get it to accept embedded quotes.
Anyone any ideas or done this? It seems a reasonable request to to test for
an empty file so that we can check if backups are indeed running (yes, there
are other ways of doing this).
Regards,
John.
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