I have an application that rotate its log once it reaches 100mb and it keeps a total of 24 logs. I am trying to write a script to run daily to tar up the previous day logs files and move them to a different directory. here is a long listing of the logs in the directory:
for example, if we run the script on the 23rd, it should tar up all the logs for the 22nd ( log.04-log.09) and move then to a different directory.
If I try to use the find command with the mtime option, I does not provide the all the logs for the previous day.
Your help is very much appreciated.
Last edited by e_mikey_2000; 04-23-2014 at 07:00 PM..
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Hello all
Does anyone has an intersting script or a good freeware tool for log rotation that is good for Unix and Linux as well ?
My thanks in advance (4 Replies)
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