10-26-2012
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Originally Posted by
bipinajith
So are you saying that some process is still writing to this 2 days old log file every 5 mins?
Yes, Its a log file for a monitoring cron job, which runs evey 5 mins and updates the log file time each time it updates, so the log file has current date and time.
I want to delete the data in this log file that is 2 days old, how do i do ?
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strclean
strclean(1M) strclean(1M)
NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files
SYNOPSIS
logdir] age]
DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If
the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify
another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Specifies a directory for the location of the
STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory
Specifies a maximum age in days for the
STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3.
EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called
FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
tained in the file.
NLS catalog for
SEE ALSO
strerr(1M), strlog(7).
strclean(1M)