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Logging output from clean-dispatch

rmorlen
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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.

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rmorlen
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

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rmorlen
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

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jonuwz
Influencer

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 ?

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