cronFileMoving

A sort of example repo for showing how to do automatic file copying safely

introduction

The sort of general idea here is to make a system account that has cronjobs. Add these cronjobs using the crontab -e interface which I will not explain here.

There should be a couple of required directories to make in this system account: $HOME/crontab and $HOME/log, and then $HOME/log/archive and $HOME/log/logrotate.d.

Shell scripts go into the crontab folder. Log files are generated by these scripts and sent into the log directory.

All shell scripts must source lock.sh and then have a few boilerplate lines so that they don't collide with each other.

#!/bin/bash

set -e
source "$(dirname)/lock.sh"
lock 123 || eexit "Already an instance of this script running, $0"

The example script is rsyncFiles.sh, and it has this boilerplate language in it plus a nifty rsync command.