topic Re: Cleanwork on linux with error in Administration and Deployment

Cleanwork on linux with error

shlomiohana — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:47:11 GMT

Hello,
I wrote a short script whose purpose to use cleanwork to delete temporary files from the disk.

#! /bin/sh
SERVER=`hostname -s`
start_date_tm=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S')

/opt/sas/install/SASHome/SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin/cleanwork /saswork1 -n -v -hostmatch -log /opt/sas/system_logs/cleanwork_log/cleanwork_${SERVER}_${start_date_tm}.log

When I ran the script with root user on the server, I received the error:
/opt/sas/system_logs/cleanwork_log/cleanwork_sas04_2026-01-29_15:01:16.log : No such file or directory

I checked and all the folders were created before running the script.

My goal in the first stage is to have all the files that are supposed to be deleted recorded in the log file because of using the -n option.

I would appreciate guidance on what needs to be changed.

Re: Cleanwork on linux with error

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:43:04 GMT

Your script tries to write the log to this path:

/opt/sas/system_logs/cleanwork_log/

but the system then complains about writing to this path:

/opt/sas/system_logs/

without the sub-directory cleanwork_log.

Something is off here.

Re: Cleanwork on linux with error

shlomiohana — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:50:40 GMT

I accidentally misspelled the error in the post, I corrected it.

Re: Cleanwork on linux with error

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:36:47 GMT

Please run this:

ls -ld /opt/sas/system_logs/cleanwork_log

and post the result.

Re: Cleanwork on linux with error

shlomiohana — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:05:38 GMT

I gave 777 permissions to the folder and it worked fine.

Re: Cleanwork on linux with error

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:15:46 GMT

Since cleanwork requires to be run by root, I would also set root as the owner of the directory and give write permission only to the user (drwxr-xr-x). Otherwise other users would be able to remove log files from there and/or write garbage there.