04-21-2001
Dear Group,
I am not much used to UNIX. The company I am hosting wiht refuses to help me with this trouble, but as near as I can see, it is NOT my trouble.
I have had this service for over a year. I just renewed for another year and all of a sudden the disk quota has been disappearing. I deleted all files that grow like log files, mail archives, bounces, stuff like that.
But, the used space keeps growing and now the disk quota is completely full. I have deleted nearly every file off the server and yet the used space keeps growing.
When I tell the owner of the hosting company that this is happening and asked for an explaination, he basically told me he couldn't explain that and that I was stupid for asking.
One person did tell me that there might be some hidden files which I would never be able to see or delete and that what ever was in them is growing. Is this true?
This problem started one week ago, the day after I renewed my serivce. However, I had not added any files to the server after renewing the contract.
I am currently trying to move to a different server because of his repeated poor customer service, but I need to know if this is true about the hidden files and what one can do about this situation I am in if it ever happens again.
Thank you.
cindy
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cronosplit
cronosplit(1m) cronosplit(1m)
NAME
cronosplit - split log files into cronolog-compatible files
SYNOPSIS
cronosplit --template=TEMPLATE [--print-invalid] [--help] [--version] file ...
DESCRIPTION
cronosplit is a simple program that reads lines from a set of input log files, which must be in Common Log Format or NCSA Combined/XLF/ELF
Format and write each lines to an output files, the name of which is constructed using the template specified and timestamp from the the
line. The template uses the same format specifiers as the Unix date(1) command (which are the same as the standard C strftime library
function).
Options
cronosplit accepts the following options and arguments:
--template=TEMPLATE
specifies the template for the output log files (using the format specifiers described below).
--print-invalid
print invalid log file entries to the standard error stream.
--utime
update modification time of output file according to last parsed log entry.
--verbose
print additional status messages to the standard error stream.
--debug
print debug messages to the standard error stream.
--help print a help message and then exit.
--version
print version information and exit.
Template format
Each character in the template represents a character in the expanded filename, except for date and time format specifiers, which are
replaced by their expansion. Format specifiers consist of a `%' followed by one of the following characters:
% a literal % character
n a new-line character
t a horizontal tab character
Time fields:
H hour (00..23)
I hour (01..12)
p the locale's AM or PM indicator
M minute (00..59)
S second (00..61, which allows for leap seconds)
X the locale's time representation (e.g.: "15:12:47")
Z time zone (e.g. GMT), or nothing if the time zone cannot be determined
Date fields:
a the locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g.: Sun..Sat)
A the locale's full weekday name (e.g.: Sunday .. Saturday)
b the locale's abbreviated month name (e.g.: Jan .. Dec)
B the locale's full month name, (e.g.: January .. December)
c the locale's date and time (e.g.: "Sun Dec 15 14:12:47 GMT 1996")
d day of month (01 .. 31)
j day of year (001 .. 366)
m month (01 .. 12)
U week of the year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53, where week 1 is the week containing the first Sunday of the year)
W week of the year with Monday as first day of week (00..53, where week 1 is the week containing the first Monday of the year)
w day of week (0 .. 6, where 0 corresponds to Sunday)
x locale's date representation (e.g. today in Britain: "12/04/96")
y year without the century (00 .. 99)
Y year with the century (1970 .. 2038)
Other specifiers may be available depending on the C library's implementation of the strftime function.
SEE ALSO
apache(1m) cronolog(1m) date(1) strftime(3) environ(5)
More information and the latest version of cronolog and cronosplit can be obtained from
http://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/cronolog/
If you have any suggestions, bug reports, fixes, or enhancements, please mail them to the author.
More about Apache
Documentation for the Apache http server is available from
http://www.apache.org
AUTHOR
Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>
cronosplit is based on a script called splitlog by Roy Fielding, which is part of the wwwstat package.
March 1998 cronosplit(1m)