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Need Assistance with gzipping files with same names
Hello,

I have an issue on a webserver where I have a perl script rotating and moving the logs to an archive directory where they are gzipped. This is working fine. The problem is when there is tracing enabled on my webserver where the tracelogs are rotated whenenver they reach 100Meg and they are given following filenames - tracelog.out.[1-9]. So the output would be simliar to following:

-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody group 5582894 Jan 6 20:46 tracelog.out.9.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody group 10538971 Jan 7 00:05 tracelog.out.9

Since there is a gzip file currently in same directory- I cannot gzip the tracelog.out.9 and thus diskspace is filling up.

I want to enhance my script to capture the tracelogs and rename them during the rolling cycle to a uniq name so the archive script will work every night.

Anyone know of quick way to do this?
 
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BF_TAR(1)						    Bogofilter Reference Manual 						 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
       files.

       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
       is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.

EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	   Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	   Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

       o   bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar

	   Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.

NOTES

       This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.

       This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.

       This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
       that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.

AUTHORS

       Matthias Andree

Bogofilter							    10/22/2012								 BF_TAR(1)