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cron script to rotate log files
I have a mac server. I have been having problems with my logs. My hard disk became full, when i researched into why it was full it was due to massive log files. There was barley any log rotation policies in place on the server. I tired to use logrotate. This doesn't work on my server. It is a MAC server and doesn't seems to have logrotate. However some of the log files on the server had been being rotated. I looked into why. I found a file that by default is run at 4:30 every Saturday. it is /etc/weekly. I opened the file and found some script that was doing the logrotate on the files that had been being rotated. The script looked like this.
Code:
echo ""
printf %s "Rotating log files:"
cd /var/log
for i in ftp.log lookupd.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log hwmond.log ipfw.log p$
if [ -f "${i}" ]; then
printf %s " $i"
if [ -x /usr/bin/gzip ]; then gzext=".gz"; else gzext=""; fi
if [ -f "${i}.3${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.3${gzext}" "${i}.4${gzext}$
if [ -f "${i}.2${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.2${gzext}" "${i}.3${gzext}$
if [ -f "${i}.1${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.1${gzext}" "${i}.2${gzext}$
if [ -f "${i}.0${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.0${gzext}" "${i}.1${gzext}$
if [ -f "${i}" ]; then mv -f "${i}" "${i}.0" && if [ -x /usr/bin/gzip ]$
touch "${i}" && chmod 640 "${i}" && chown root:admin "${i}"
fi
done
if [ -f /var/run/syslog.pid ]; then kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslog.pid | head $
echo ""
Cool I had found the script that did the log rotations. Bravely i decided to edit that script. I edited it. I ensured the following.
1. I could add my own log files to the for loop
2. Since the log files i was adding would have different permissions i would need to return octal file permissions, the user group and user of that log file. so i could use it in the touch, chmod and chown command
3. I wanted it to only rotate logs if the size of the log file was over 2MB. Otherwise not to bother.
So i designed my script to abide by those rules.
Here is my script
Code:
echo ""
printf %s "Rotating log files:"
cd /var/log
# Add new logs to this list
for i in daily_out.log asl.log monthly.out weekly.out lastlog windowserver.log SerialNumberSupport.log servermgrd.log rsync_backup.log crashreporter.log ftp.log lookupd.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log hwmond.log ipfw.log ppp.log secure.log; do
if [ -f "${i}" ]; then
#Mods by Tim Golding - shell noob. this mod makes sure logrotations only occure if file over 2M. Should allow not system logs to be added to the for loop.
file_size=`ls -l "${i}"| awk '{printf "%s",$5}'`
max=2097152
if [ $file_size -gt $max ]; then
#end of mods
ch_mod=`ls -l "${i}"| awk '{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr($1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf("%0o ",k);print}'| awk '{printf "%s",$1}'`
this_group=`ls -l "${i}"| awk '{printf "%s",$3}'`
this_user=`ls -l "${i}"| awk '{printf "%s",$4}'`
printf %s " $i"
if [ -x /usr/bin/gzip ]; then gzext=".gz"; else gzext=""; fi
if [ -f "${i}.3${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.3${gzext}" "${i}.4${gzext}"; fi
if [ -f "${i}.2${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.2${gzext}" "${i}.3${gzext}"; fi
if [ -f "${i}.1${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.1${gzext}" "${i}.2${gzext}"; fi
if [ -f "${i}.0${gzext}" ]; then mv -f "${i}.0${gzext}" "${i}.1${gzext}"; fi
if [ -f "${i}" ]; then mv -f "${i}" "${i}.0" && if [ -x /usr/bin/gzip ]; then gzip -9 "${i}.0"; fi; fi
touch "${i}" && chmod "${ch_mod}" "${i}" && chown "${this_group}":"${this_user}" "${i}"
fi
fi
done
if [ -f /var/run/syslog.pid ]; then kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslog.pid | head -1); fi
echo ""
So i wrote this script telling myself how clever i was. Until Saturday when the script run. There were only two log files over 2M. asl.log and weekly_out.log. They were both huges. the script had backed up the old logs gzipped the backups and created new logs with the correct permissions. But the new logs are 0 bytes and are not being written to. What have a done wrong. Is it something to do with not killing the process as is done in the bottom line of the script with syslog.pid. The bottom line is tired to improve the logs policies but have made the situation alot worse. Can anyone offer any advice?
Last edited by timgolding; 04-07-2009 at 06:11 AM..
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