Cleanwork on linux with error

[shlomiohana]

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.

[Kurt_Bremser]

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.

[shlomiohana]

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

[Kurt_Bremser]

Please run this:

ls -ld /opt/sas/system_logs/cleanwork_log

and post the result.

[shlomiohana]

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

[Kurt_Bremser]

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.