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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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SCANLOGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SCANLOGS(8)

NAME

       scanlogs - summarize INN log files.

SYNOPSIS

       scanlogs [ norotate ]

DESCRIPTION

       Scanlogs  summarizes  the information recorded in the INN log files (see newslog(5)).  By default, it also rotates and cleans out the logs.
       It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script.

KEYWORDS

       The following keywords are accepted:

       norotate
	      Using this keyword disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the logs files are only scanned for  information
	      and no contents are altered.

       If scanlogs is invoked more than once a day, the ``norotate'' keyword should be used to prevent premature log cleaning.

HISTORY

       Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.2, dated 1998/01/28.

SEE ALSO

       innd(8), newslog(5), news.daily(8), nnrpd(8).

																       SCANLOGS(8)

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