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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers logs Post 30920 by LivinFree on Tuesday 29th of October 2002 04:30:34 PM
Old 10-29-2002
Logrotate is typically distributed with Linux systems, but should be fairly simple to port over to others, since it's based (I believe) on perl. It's run via cron, and each time it runs, checks a set of config files that define archival, truncation, etc of log files.

If you just want to clear out that one periodically, it may just be easier to whip up a little script that cp's it to another file (in case you want to review it later), compresses the archive, and truncates that file.
 

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strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program SYNOPSIS
strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -aage The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option. -dlogdir A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option. EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample of using the strclean command. This example has the same result as running strclean with no arguments: example% strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3 FILES
/var/adm/streams/error.* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5) STREAMS Programming Guide NOTES
strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis. SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 strclean(1M)
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