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Operating Systems Linux SED/AWK Script to clear log file using timestamp? Post 302172258 by davesimm on Monday 3rd of March 2008 06:18:56 AM
Old 03-03-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yogesh Sawant
yes, that's possible. but why not rotate the log file on daily/weekly/monthly basis?
Ok, how would i go about that (search isn't helping me much!), and can i use logrotate without installing any extra code?

All i am aiming to do is stop the log file becoming huge and filling the box, but to keep at least 1 months worth of data for any problem solving. So i'm open to suggestions really.

Thanks for the help!

Dave
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

monthly

monthly(8)						      System Manager's Manual							monthly(8)

NAME

       monthly - httpd log rotation for wwwstat

SYNOPSIS

       monthly

DESCRIPTION

       THIS PROGRAM MUST ONLY BE RUN ONCE PER MONTH!  DURING THE FIRST WEEK It assumes a lot, like that you use wwwstat and archive your logfiles
       once per month.	You will need to configure it for your server before it can be used.

       Reads the logfile (assumed to contain more than one month's worth of WWW common logfile entries) and moves the prior month's entries into a
       separate file.  The new file is created on TMPDIR (to avoid filling up the disk), compressed using gzip, and then moved to the archive
       directory.  The program also restarts the httpd server.

SEE ALSO

       crontab(1), httpd(1m), perl(1), wwwstat(1), splitlog(1), wwwerrs(8), oldlog2new(8)

       More info and the latest version of monthly can be obtained from

	    http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/
	     ftp://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/

       If you have any suggestions, bug reports, fixes, or enhancements, please join the <wwwstat-users@ics.uci.edu> mailing list by sending e-
       mail with "subscribe" in the subject of the message to the request address <wwwstat-users-request@ics.uci.edu>.	The list is archived at
       the above address.

								 18 November 2004							monthly(8)
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