How to add cron job by Chef

Thanks to Chef, I have could save my time. Because I'm responsible for over 70 servers. I installed Middleware, configured user and ssh and OS environment variables by Chef 4 months ago. It just took half a day. Thanks Chef!

As you know, the LOGs became monsters when we have been satisfied. My application dumped out 4.4GB monsters for 4 months. I need to hunt them. So I reused Chef!

Here is my Chef recipe.

	cron "remove-log" do
	minute "37"
	hour "04"
	command "sh /usr/local/app/removelog.sh"
	end

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Here is my shell hunts monsters.

	#!/bin/bash
	LOG_DIR="/usr/local/app/*/logs"
	#old log erase
	find ${LOG_DIR} -type f -name "myAllipcation*" -mtime +31 | xargs rm -f
	find ${LOG_DIR} -type f -name "gc.log*" -mtime +31 | xargs rm -f

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After run Chef client, you can confirm cron job is activated.

	[root@baepiff app]# crontab -l
	# Chef Name: as-stat-remove-log
	37 04 * * * sh /usr/local/app/removelog.sh

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If you want to configure detail level of cron, please look around the following URL.
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Cron