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Logging output from clean-dispatch

rmorlen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:11:14 GMT

I have a script that runs when certain events occur. This script cleans the dispatch directory. I would like to log the output of this command so that I can track when the script runs and what it did.

I am not a linux guru and have tried:

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd splunkd clean-dispatch /temp -1d -1d | tee -a /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/internalscripts.log

and

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd splunkd clean-dispatch /temp -1d -1d >> tee -a /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/internalscripts.log

Neither writes to the logfile. Is there another way of writing the output to the logfile?

Thanks.

Re: Logging output from clean-dispatch

jonuwz — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:26:53 GMT

The 2nd option above should read
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd splunkd clean-dispatch /temp -1d -1d >> /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/internalscripts.log

Also, does /temp exist ? Maybe this should be /tmp ?

Re: Logging output from clean-dispatch

rmorlen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:30:59 GMT

The command /opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd splunkd clean-dispatch /temp -1d -1d works fine.

Re: Logging output from clean-dispatch

rmorlen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:42:39 GMT

Sorry for wasting time. The command below works (not sure why it didn't show up in the log before):

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd splunkd clean-dispatch /temp -1d -1d | tee -a /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/internalscripts.log