Hi all,

I am new to unix,i need all of your help in simplifying this.
i have clubed bunch of commands to zip the log files and move to a directory name with date stamp and remove the files older than 6 months....

right now i have saved this file in .sh and scheduld this to run every 30 days... it goes like this.
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NOWDATE=`date +%d%m%y`
mkdir -p /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/access_log_$NOWDATE
mv /var/log/httpd/access_log.* /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/access_log_$NOWDATE
mkdir /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/access-ssl_log_$NOWDATE
mv /var/log/httpd/access-ssl_log.* /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/access-ssl_log_$NOWDATE
mkdir /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/error_log_$NOWDATE
mv /var/log/httpd/error_log.* /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/error_log_$NOWDATE
mkdir /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/mod_jk_$NOWDATE
mv /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.* /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/mod_jk_$NOWDATE
mkdir /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/ssl_request_log_$NOWDATE
mv /var/log/httpd/ssl_request_log.* /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE/ssl_request_log_$NOWDATE
tar -zcvf folders_log_$NOWDATE.tgz /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE
rm -rf /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE
mkdir /Folders-Log-Archival
mv /var/log/httpd/folders_log_$NOWDATE.tgz /Folders-Log-Archival
/Folders-Log-Archival/folders_log_* -mtime +180 -exec rm {} \;
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please help me in simplifying this ... loking forword for help

Thanks in advance,
Vijay

Most people would use logrotate to do this... any reason why you can't?

You could simplify it a little with a for loop. You also appear to be missing a find command from the last line of your script, and I have removed the unnecessary mv of the tarball:

The &&s are in there to prevent the tar and especially the rm -rf from running if the previous steps have failed, otherwise you could potentially lose some log files.

hi Anni,

thanks a lot for the Help ,

small doubts
(for LOG in access_log access-ssl_log erro_log mod_jk ssl_request_log)

all log generates 5 files for a month named
1)access_log
2)access_log.1
3)access_log.2
4)access_log.3
5)access_log.4

access_log file will be a active log this i cant move, and i cant stop the service to move this, i only need to move/compress rest of the files... same applies for other 4 log also

in this case what will be ur suggestion..

& iam using logrotate to just rotate the files,could u pls tell me how to compress(tgz) and move it on to diffrent server/filler

waiting for ur response....
Vijay

The mv command only moves logs that end in .*, so it will only move the previously rotated logs, so it should work fine.

Have a read of man logrotate to see what it can do, specifically the compress option, and the facility for postrotate scripts, where you can add any custom processing you wish after a log is rotated.

hey Dude,

Thanks for Quick Response.

i really appreciate ur help