I admit I am terrible with scripting, so when I was asked to store users' command history lines and zip them on monthly basis what I did was to create a file "user_history_Feb" with the following contents: Part A 
[root@H99XXX bin]# more user_history_Feb
cp -p /var/log/user_history/*history /var/log/user_history/old_logs/
gzip -9 /var/log/user_history/old_logs/*history
cd /var/log/user_history/old_logs
mv *gz /var/log/user_history/old_logs/02
[root@H99XXX bin]#

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and a cronjob for it to run end of Feb: Part B 
[root@H99 bin]# crontab -l | grep user_history_Feb
01 22 29 2 * /usr/local/bin/user_history_Feb
[root@H99 bin]# uname -a
Linux H99 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 4 22:45:44 EST 2012 x86_6
+4 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@H99 bin]#

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I am using RHEL 5.7 I know my "script" is no script, and would be very thankful if someone could help me into scriptifying part A so I can adjust the cron

In reply to Script to zip users cmd history log files by hedkandi

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