Why is the log blank???

[mace]

I'm doing some cleanup of files through cron. The command is:
/opt/scripts/cleanup.sh > /opt/scripts/cleanup.log 2>&1
But when I go to cleanup.log there is nothing there.
The command is working as the previous days files are gone.
What am I doing wrong??
thanks
Mace

[digvijay.gahlot]

Just curious does cleanup.sh generate some output which you are redirectling to cleanup.log?

One reason that cleanup.log doesn't contain anything is that as you are running cron. If not file has to be deleted on a given day then there will be not messages to llog for that day so nothing will be written.
As you are making fresh file instead of appending the file will look empty on the given day.

[mace]

I'm sorry I should have explained it.
Yes, cleanup.sh has several commands(rm) that removes old files from the system to ensure we don't fill up a filesystem.
I had a problem some time back and thought it would be nice to see what is happening but I get nothing from the commands

thanks
Mace

[digvijay.gahlot]

I wish to clearify myself.
Suppose i have a file named junk. A script remove.sh with content
rm junk
When i type # ./remove.sh > logfile
I expect logfile to be empty because rm command doesn't generate any output.
Instead if i have

rm junk
echo " junk deleted "

in remove.sh
i will have
junk deleted
as content of my logfile.

Apology if you already know

[mace]

digvijay.gahlot thank you for the response. I was hoping that rm would send what it was deleting. I guess I could ls the filesystem before and after to truely show what was there and what is deleted.
Thanks mace