I can write a simple script and set it up in cronjob, as below
But next time Saturday, it will overwrite /var/ovd/ConfigLogs.1. how should I prevent it ? I am not good in programming. It should create another files with extension of .1, .2, .3 and so on.
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)
I have a shell script that will gzip/tar/archive application logs that are over 20 days old which works just fine, but I would like to convert to a Perl script. Problem is, I'm a beginner with Perl and all attempts so far have failed.
Basicaly I have a log dir /app/logs that contains several... (18 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)
Hello All,
I am learning unix and basically I want to rotate one of my application logs every 1 hour. I need to rotate that file every one hour. I looked in the forums and googled.. but couldn;t get proper information. Requesting you all to kindly guide me.
Our application is running on... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Am trying to write my own log rotate script. Curremtly, what I have is as below:
#!/bin/ksh
file_to_rotate=${1}
x=${2}
while ]
do
let curr=${x}
let prev=${x}-1
if ] ; then
#echo "cp -p ${file_to_rotate} ${file_to_rotate}.${curr}"
cp -p... (7 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)
My problem: Both access and error logs do not rotate any more and get really large.
They are located here: /srv/www/+vHost name here+/logs/
Configuration seems to be here:
/etc/logrotate.conf => looks OK, including "size 10M" to avoid large files
(/etc/logrotate.d => is empty)
manually... (4 Replies)
Appreciate help for the below issue.
Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt..............
1)if logs exist it should move the logs with extention... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sanjeev G
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grablogs.conf
grablogs.conf(4) File Formats grablogs.conf(4)NAME
grablogs.conf - grablogs configuration for libgrablogs.so of the plugins of
gnome-system-log file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
DESCRIPTION
The libgrablogs.so is a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it colloct the log files from the system as many as possible. grablogs.conf is a
configuration file that contains a set of lines mixed with sh(1) syntax codes and individual
log files. libgrablogs.so will read the file try to get a log files list for
gnome-system-log(1). Users can copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to overwrite the system default one.
The grablogs.conf file contains the following configuration categories:
[configs]
Each line under this category is interpreted as a config file of System. The plugin will open the config file and try to find
all system paths of the logs.
[commands]
Each line under this category is interpreted as a shell command and will be execute through a pipe. And each line of the out-
put of the command will be interpreted as a log path.
[logs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a log path.
FILES
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
The system default configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so
$HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p`/grablogs.conf
The user specific configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so
EMAMPLE
[configs]
/etc/syslog.conf
[commands]
for i in `svcs -aH -o FMRI | grep -v lrc `; do svcprop -p restarter/logfile $i 2>/dev/null || svcprop -q-p restarter/alt_logfile $i
2>/dev/null ; done
[logs]
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/cron
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/cups/error_log
SEE ALSO gnome-system-log(1), pipelog.conf(1)gnome-utils 2.16.0 13 Oct 2006 grablogs.conf(4)