Script for moving system logs to another machine by using with time stamp using crontab

#this is the simple script which run depends on crontab entry

#/bin/sh

HOST=`hostname`

TIMESTAMP=`date +"%b_%d_%y_%H-%M%p"`

cd /var/adm

cp messages.1 messages.$HOST.$TIMESTAMP

sleep 6

gzip /var/adm/messages.$HOST.$TIMESTAMP

scp /var/adm/messages.$HOST.$TIMESTAMP.gz root@10.2.171.101:/home/root/logs #ssh key must be instlled on remote machine, else, it will ask for the password everytime.

rm /var/adm/messages.$HOST.$TIMESTAMP.gz