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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory scripts for rotation and compression of sys logs Post 16192 by witt on Tuesday 26th of February 2002 08:17:12 PM
Old 02-26-2002
You can do this :

Input this command into root cron :

30 23 * * * /rotate_syslog

This command execute the rotate_syslog at 23:30 o´clock everyday.

Script /rotate_syslog example :

#! /bin/sh
#
LOG=your_syslog
cd /syslog_path
test -f $LOG.3 && mv $LOG.2 $LOG.4
test -f $LOG.2 && mv $LOG.2 $LOG.3
test -f $LOG.1 && mv $LOG.1 $LOG.2
test -f $LOG.0 && mv $LOG.0 $LOG.1
mv $LOG $LOG.0
cat /dev/null > $LOG
chmod 644 $LOG


Witt

Last edited by witt; 02-27-2002 at 02:40 AM..
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LOG(1)							     cao-vlsi reference manual							    LOG(1)

NAME
log - logical representations for boolean functions and utilities. ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr DESCRIPTION
log is a set of structures and functions that permits to manipulate several representations of boolean functions. Several programs and libraries of the cao-vlsi cad tools rest on the log package. Three different kind of functions are available for: Hash table management Prefixed representation for boolean functions Ordered binary decision diagrams representation EXAMPLE
Let's suppose that actual mbk version is 'nnn'. In order to use log, libMutnnn.a library must be called. makefile: HEADER = -I/labo/include LIB = -L/labo/lib -lMut -ltsh -labl -lbdd Each library can be called separatly. The "log.h" header file must be inserted in the files that use the functions or the structures defined in a library. SEE ALSO
mbk(1), beh(1), AUTHOR
L. BURGUN salle 30 T. 55-65 Universite P&M Curie - 4 pl. Jussieu - FRANCE THANKS
Thanks to P. REMY, F. PETROT, P. ALLEGRE and N. DICTUS. BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. ASIM
/LIP6 October 1, 1997 LOG(1)
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