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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Log rotation script Post 302899020 by e_mikey_2000 on Friday 25th of April 2014 12:17:51 PM
Old 04-25-2014
It seems that you code does not grab all the files for the previous day. here is an example of the log die with the time stamp:
Code:
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001759 Apr 23 16:04 log.16
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004819 Apr 23 19:21 log.15
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000059 Apr 23 22:48 log.14
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001107 Apr 24 02:11 log.13
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100000180 Apr 24 05:35 log.12
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002642 Apr 24 11:43 log.11
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001593 Apr 24 15:07 log.10
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002728 Apr 24 18:09 log.09
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100003788 Apr 24 21:24 log.08
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100003583 Apr 25 00:34 log.07
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002551 Apr 25 04:19 log.06
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004682 Apr 25 06:04 log.05
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001351 Apr 25 06:42 log.04
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100004036 Apr 25 07:05 log.03
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100001128 Apr 25 10:09 log.02
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     100002646 Apr 25 14:53 log.01
-rw-r--r--   1 user1     user1     37367279 Apr 25 15:59 log

I f I run your code, I only get the follwoing:
Code:
find log* -type f -mtime 1 -exec echo tar -rf $tarfile {} +
tar -rf log.10 log.11 log.12 log.13 log.14 log.15 log.16

The code should return all the files with the time stamp of the previous day which are log.8-log-13.

Does the time aone matter here. My server is in CDT time zone.

Your help is very much appreciated

---------- Post updated at 11:17 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:16 AM ----------

The application I use already rotate the logs files once they are reached 100 mb. I need to archive and tar up those logs files on a daily bases. The logadm is not useful in this case.
 

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