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Cronjob for curator

I have installed ELK and the latest curator 4.0. I would like to made it regularly run with cronjob in linux.

  1. I have installed .curator at the linux home, i.e. cd~.
  2. I have typed crontab -e.
  3. I input the following statement * * * * * /.curator curator action.yml

Is this setting right? How should I check if it is running or not?

Solution

  • 1 - For curator installation checkout: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/installation.html

    2 - You can edit crontab entries like that. Thats OK.

    3 - If you install curator correctly you can run: 

    * * * * * curator /path/to/action/file/action.yml

    That will run curator every minute with the specified action.yml file.

    For crontab log checkout: https://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log