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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Logrotate to delete file which has date stamp Post 302819995 by spacebar on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 10:10:22 PM
Old 06-11-2013
Check out the 'find' command, This is a simple example:
Code:
** Log files
May  6 12:47 access.2013-05-06.log
May  7 12:47 access.2013-05-07.log
May  8 12:47 access.2013-05-08.log
May  9 12:47 access.2013-05-09.log
May 10 12:47 access.2013-05-10.log
May 11 12:47 access.2013-05-11.log
May 12 12:47 access.2013-05-12.log
May 13 12:47 access.2013-05-13.log
May 14 12:47 access.2013-05-14.log
May 15 12:47 access.2013-05-15.log

** Find/list log files >30 days old
$ find . -mtime  +30 -name "access.*.log" -print
./access.2013-05-06.log
./access.2013-05-07.log
./access.2013-05-08.log
./access.2013-05-09.log
./access.2013-05-10.log
./access.2013-05-11.log

** Find/list/remove log files >30 days old
$ find . -mtime  +30 -name "access.*.log" -exec rm {} \;  -print
./access.2013-05-06.log
./access.2013-05-07.log
./access.2013-05-08.log
./access.2013-05-09.log
./access.2013-05-10.log
./access.2013-05-11.log

** Log files left
May 12 12:47 access.2013-05-12.log
May 13 12:47 access.2013-05-13.log
May 14 12:47 access.2013-05-14.log
May 15 12:47 access.2013-05-15.log

 

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pcap_set_tstamp_type

PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3PCAP)											       PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3PCAP)

NAME

       pcap_set_tstamp_type - set the time stamp type to be used by a capture device

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcap/pcap.h>

       int pcap_set_tstamp_type(pcap_t *p, int tstamp_type);

DESCRIPTION

       pcap_set_tstamp_type()  sets  the  the  type  of  time  stamp  desired for packets captured on the pcap descriptor to the type specified by
       tstamp_type.  It must be called on a pcap descriptor created  by  pcap_create()	that  has  not	yet  been  activated  by  pcap_activate().
       pcap_list_tstamp_types()  will  give  a list of the time stamp types supported by a given capture device.  See pcap-tstamp(7) for a list of
       all the time stamp types.

RETURN VALUE

       pcap_set_tstamp_type() returns 0 on success if the specified time stamp type is expected to be supported by the capture device,	PCAP_WARN-
       ING_TSTAMP_TYPE_NOTSUP if the specified time stamp type is not supported by the capture device, PCAP_ERROR_ACTIVATED if called on a capture
       handle that has been activated, and PCAP_ERROR_CANTSET_TSTAMP_TYPE if the capture device doesn't support setting the time stamp type.

SEE ALSO

       pcap(3PCAP), pcap_list_tstamp_types(3PCAP), pcap_tstamp_type_name_to_val(3PCAP), pcap-tstamp(7)

								  5 December 2014				       PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3PCAP)
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