12-14-2002
You saying, you want to clear out the log file,after 30 days.
Well heres a perl script i wrote to clear out a log file.if ur anygood at perl ( unlike me ) you can adapt it or use cron to run it.
code below :
#util to clear log file
#version 1.0
#-colinok
#usr/bin/perl
#open file
open (LOG, "> ENTER PATH TO FILE HERE ")
$log = LOG;
#clear file
print clear $log;
#close file
close (LOG);
hope this helps
- PERLEO
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I would like to list latest 2 days, 3 days or 4 days,etc of files in the directory...
how? is it using ls? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: happyv
3 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to add these no. these are in the format of
days:hours:minutes:sec
I want result in this format only
0:00:04:59
0:00:00:12
0:00:00:28
0:00:00:03
0:01:29:35
0:00:00:19
0:01:05:21
Is any body ca help me?????
To get This..
Thanks
Nishant (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: krishna_sicsr
1 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have this scenario where:-
The file that I want to save its name into array df is my.08120323.trx which is located in the dir as below:
$ pwd
/u01/abc/def/SRC_datafiles
$ ls *trx
my.08120323.trx
$ df=*"trx" ##keeping the filename... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: luna_soleil
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there. i'm new user at here
I need help for this. I need to write a script that maintains a database of cryptographic checksums. In other words, I need this script to check the files checksum whether the files has been modified or not. But i got no idea where to start. Hope anyone here can... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: hihihehe
8 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Just writing to ask if any one can advise on what tools to use best for maintaining your scripts ... preferably free/open source and portable if there is one, that is, one that can be placed and run on a USB stick ...
At the moment, am having them in directories and files and no... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
2 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi ,
While working on perl, have to write a continuous log file which I can monitor. I tried like,
open (LOG,'>'.$log.'/Report_'.$todaysdate.'.log') or die("Unable to create the log file");
print LOG "\nDate : ".`date`;
But when I ran the script in backend and monitor log, it... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Deei
1 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a C code which builds and works fine on 32bit linux machine.
Now i want to convert that code to build and run on 64 bit linux machine. I dont want to maintain two separate sources for 32 and 64 bit build. Same source should get build on 32 as well as 64 bit machine (when a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhushan123
2 Replies
8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys,
Good day to all and Happy New Year!!! Cheers!!!
I hope anyone could help/suggest me on hot to create a script that will monitor the directory where files are being dumped. I have a script in CRON that runs everyday and collect for logs with a filename of Output_$(date... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rymnd_12345
3 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do i cleanup a log file data every 2 days, I was using below command in a script to remove log file every 2 days, but looks like its not working as log file date and time gets updated every 5 mins. Is there a way ?
find ./ \( -name . -o -prune \) -type f -mtime -2 -name... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: aix_admin_007
9 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to collect last 2 days data from /var/log/messages into a separate file (file format: flmessagetimedaymonth). I have collect today's month, date, time information in separate variable. Please help me in this issue (Probably need awk and grep function).
month=$(date|awk '{print $2}')... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: makauser
4 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
lchage
lchage(8) System Manager's Manual lchage(8)
NAME
lchage - Display or change user password policy
SYNOPSIS
lchage [OPTION]... user
DESCRIPTION
Displays or allows changing password policy of user.
OPTIONS
-d, --date=days
Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.
-E, --expire=days
Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-I, --inactive=days
Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password).
-l, --list
Only list current user's policy and make no changes.
-m, --mindays=days
Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking.
-M, --maxdays=days
Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.
-W, --warndays=days
Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lchage(8)