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# 1  
Old 06-11-2013
Logrotate to delete file which has date stamp
Hello, can someone please suggest how to create an logrotate for this scenario. Need to delete all log file which are created more than 30 days ago, and all the log file have date stamp on it.

I dont want to create a cron job for this task.
here is the example
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    49203 May 18 22:22 access.2013-05-18.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    42702 May 19 23:59 access.2013-05-19.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   396889 May 20 23:21 access.2013-05-20.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   380026 May 21 23:26 access.2013-05-21.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   255419 May 22 23:37 access.2013-05-22.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   412441 May 23 23:12 access.2013-05-23.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   236075 May 24 23:54 access.2013-05-24.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    55490 May 25 23:55 access.2013-05-25.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat    41054 May 26 23:50 access.2013-05-26.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   258924 May 27 23:18 access.2013-05-27.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat   258924 May 27 23:18 access.log

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 06-11-2013
Check out the 'find' command, This is a simple example:
Code:
** Log files
May  6 12:47 access.2013-05-06.log
May  7 12:47 access.2013-05-07.log
May  8 12:47 access.2013-05-08.log
May  9 12:47 access.2013-05-09.log
May 10 12:47 access.2013-05-10.log
May 11 12:47 access.2013-05-11.log
May 12 12:47 access.2013-05-12.log
May 13 12:47 access.2013-05-13.log
May 14 12:47 access.2013-05-14.log
May 15 12:47 access.2013-05-15.log

** Find/list log files >30 days old
$ find . -mtime  +30 -name "access.*.log" -print
./access.2013-05-06.log
./access.2013-05-07.log
./access.2013-05-08.log
./access.2013-05-09.log
./access.2013-05-10.log
./access.2013-05-11.log

** Find/list/remove log files >30 days old
$ find . -mtime  +30 -name "access.*.log" -exec rm {} \;  -print
./access.2013-05-06.log
./access.2013-05-07.log
./access.2013-05-08.log
./access.2013-05-09.log
./access.2013-05-10.log
./access.2013-05-11.log

** Log files left
May 12 12:47 access.2013-05-12.log
May 13 12:47 access.2013-05-13.log
May 14 12:47 access.2013-05-14.log
May 15 12:47 access.2013-05-15.log

# 3  
Old 06-11-2013
I haven't tested but create /etc/logrotate.d/access

Populate it with

Code:
var/log/access.log {
    daily
    rotate 30
    create 0644 tomcat tomcat
}

And then restart rsyslogd. If your /etc/logrotate.conf is default then I think that should work. But of course test.
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