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04-23-2014

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Log rotation script

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:

Code:

-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000150 Apr 19 10:46 log.24
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004207 Apr 19 14:21 log.23
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004463 Apr 19 18:22 log.22
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100003277 Apr 19 22:33 log.21
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000833 Apr 20 03:03 log.20
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002192 Apr 20 09:07 log.19
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004056 Apr 20 12:45 log.18
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000851 Apr 20 16:16 log.17
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001805 Apr 20 20:21 log.16
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100003432 Apr 21 00:50 log.15
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002232 Apr 21 06:23 log.14
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004079 Apr 21 10:38 log.13
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004782 Apr 21 14:13 log.12
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000374 Apr 21 17:50 log.11
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004002 Apr 21 21:29 log.10
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001480 Apr 22 02:15 log.09
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002608 Apr 22 07:12 log.08
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000332 Apr 22 11:24 log.07
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002060 Apr 22 15:12 log.06
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000087 Apr 22 18:45 log.05
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000197 Apr 22 22:41 log.04
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000436 Apr 23 03:26 log.03
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004005 Apr 23 08:54 log.02
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100003351 Apr 23 12:29 log.01
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     55085889 Apr 23 14:20 log

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.. Reason: code tag

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bf_tar

BF_TAR(1)																 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
       files.

       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
       is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.

EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	  Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	  Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

       o  bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar

	  Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.

NOTES

       This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.

       This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.

       This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
       that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.

								    07/23/2007								 BF_TAR(1)

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