1. HP-UX

Can anyone post a sample log rotate and archive configuration on HP-UX? I really don't know how to do that... :( (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all. Due to some reason I can not use HUP to rotate needed log files. So I use the standard method: cp $file $file.1 cat /dev/null > $file But if Java application in this time writing the output to $file, in the beginning of it appears many "^@^@^@^@^@^@". How to avoid it? Or how... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the below script to help with disk space cleanup that finds logs older than a specified number of days (say 10 days). I need it to grab "active" logs as well. Problem is an "active log" will not get archived unless I put in 0 days which I don't want to do, I need to leave the past 10 days,... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I current have many apps servers running and need to create a script to rotate logs daily, and then create an autosys job to delete logs that are older than 30 days. I was thrown into this and have no idea what to do, please help me get started, thanks! -----Post Update----- and i will... (6 Replies)

5. Web Development

Hi , I have cronolog (http://cronolog.org/) setup to rotate both my error and access logs, but how can I use it to rotate my mod_jk.log file. I tried different things but cant get it to work. I want to end up where all three files will be rotated daily in YYYY/MM/DD folder format. thanks (0 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am trying to create a simple function that implements log rotation rotatelogs () { file_name=$1 archive_dir=$2 retention_period=$3 find $archive_dir -name $file_name -mtime +$retention_period -exec rm -f {} \; } Issue i am facing is the file_name would be something like my... (3 Replies)

7. Solaris

hi folk, need advise regarding the log rotation, i have the logadm set at 30 2 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm so it supposed to rotate once per day, but now it rotated twice! but someone my log will rotate at 2:30 AM, but then another 2 hours later, it creates a new and rotate a new log again,... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys, Good morning, I just want to know and collect ideas on this one. Regarding rotation of logs as I've observed it's not consistently functioning. I have a server with 8 Partitions, each partition has a dedicated directory for the logs that is needed and I set it every 5mins (300secs) the... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need some suggestion with an old problem form a thread here: https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/153204-multiple-not-statement-awk.html Since my log is large, I did get help to make a line that splits the log into two partstail -f syslog | awk '!/snmpd|ntpd|reject/{print | "tee... (1 Reply)

10. Solaris

Hi All! I seem to have a problem with log rotation, unless I am doing something wrong, I have type the following command for testing purposes to see if the -s option works but he did not: logadm -w /var/adm/messages -C 8 -c -s 512k -t '/var/adm/messages.$n' -z 1 the file is now at this... (7 Replies)