what about using - if available on your system - the backup control option of cp:
Unfortunately, don't have the --backup option. Never heard of that option actually. Will check on that in any case.
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Originally Posted by zaxxon
If it is ok for you, I suggest to use the unix weekday like date +%w in the file name when wrapping/copying the current log file at the end of a day (0-6).
So you won't have to track the numbers in the file names and after 1 week they are overwritten. If 7 days is not enough you could use the month's day this way for example (1-31).
Hhhhmmmm ... that's a good thought actually but run the script weekly but very good suggestion.
BTW, just noted, I actually need to do the re-order/re-numbering before doing the rotate, not after ....
Hi
Can you suggest some perl script. My OS is HP-UX 11.11 I want to it into a cron job.
Every night it will backup the file with that day's date and open a dummy file.
Thanks
Ash (3 Replies)
Hello,
I only know the basic for shell programing. I need help for this, I thinks this is a basic for anyone who know a litle of shell scripting.
I need creat a script for a rotatate logs, when a filesystem is full. I have a filesystem.
The rotate consist in zip the current log (copy) and... (1 Reply)
I have a mac server. I have been having problems with my logs. My hard disk became full, when i researched into why it was full it was due to massive log files. There was barley any log rotation policies in place on the server. I tired to use logrotate. This doesn't work on my server. It is a MAC... (19 Replies)
I have a big log,separated by the character:,
one of the fields is the date in the format "day / month / year"
and I need to remove the lines prior to 30 days. Can help me? (7 Replies)
quick question:
I have a current script that will put the output on a log file. See snapshot of the code below. I wanted this to be rotated everyday based on date. So if anyone execute the script today there will be a filecreated such as sys.log.(datetoday), if tomorrow it would be... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Am trying to write my own version of a log rotate scripts 'coz I don't have the logrotate for other flavors of *nix servers. Probably should try and download the source and re-compile but our SA don't want to do so.
Anyway, just want to know if there is any way to improve on the code... (0 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have script on crontab and give output quite large. I would like to know how to create rotate log when the size of log maximum 50MB
if the test.log is 50MB then create test.0
Thanks
Edy (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have below script in logrotate.d to rotate logs.
logs are not rotating after the file grow to 1k, do you have any idea? Is it because of it just only 1K?
Please let me know if the below syntax is in correct.
# more trotate
/sourcepath/*/servers/*/logs/*log... (2 Replies)
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rotatelogs
rotatelogs(8) System Manager's Manual rotatelogs(8)NAME
rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server
SYNOPSIS
rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]
DESCRIPTION
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile feature, which can be used like this:
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common
This creates the files /var/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a
multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new
log is started.
OPTIONS
logfile
The path plus basename of the logfile. If logfile includes any Otherwise, the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is automatically added and is the
time in seconds. Both formats compute the start time from the beginning of the current period.
rotationtime
The rotation time in seconds.
offset The number of minutes offset from UTC. If omitted, zero is assumed and UTC is used. For example, to use local time in the zone UTC
-5 hours, specify a value of -300 for this argument.
PORTABILITY
The following logfile format string substitutions should be supported by all strftime(3) implementations, see the strftime(3) man page for
library-specific extensions.
%A full weekday name (localized)
%a 3-character weekday name (localized)
%B full month name (localized)
%b 3-character month name (localized)
%c date and time (localized)
%d 2-digit day of month
%H 2-digit hour (24 hour clock)
%I 2-digit hour (12 hour clock)
%j 3-digit day of year
%M 2-digit minute
%m 2-digit month
%p am/pm of 12 hour clock (localized)
%S 2-digit second
%U 2-digit week of year (Sunday first day of week)
%W 2-digit week of year (Monday first day of week)
%w 1-digit weekday (Sunday first day of week)
%X time (localized)
%x date (localized)
%Y 4-digit year
%y 2-digit year
%Z time zone name
%% literal `%'
SEE ALSO httpd(8)
March 2001 rotatelogs(8)