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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cleaning log files Post 41620 by rocker40 on Thursday 9th of October 2003 04:32:37 PM
Old 10-09-2003
[QUOTE]Originally posted by thehoghunter
[B]You could do any of the following or a combination -

This one grabs the last 5000 lines and copies to tmp file - then you copy it back to the original - it removes everything in the original and replaces it with only those 5000 lines.
# tail -5000 rptlog1 > rptlog.tmp
# cat rptlog.tmp > rptlog1

Same type of thing but you search for "Oct" - the assumption is that you grabbed enough lines (only you can tell for sure) AND that this file has the date posted in it for each entry. This would leave you with just the entries for October in the file.
# tail - 10000 rptlog1|egrep "Oct" > rptlog.tmp
# cat rptlog.tmp > rptlog1

These work thank you for taking the time to explain that.
 

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grablogs.conf(4)						   File Formats 						  grablogs.conf(4)

NAME
grablogs.conf - grablogs configuration for libgrablogs.so of the plugins of gnome-system-log file SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf DESCRIPTION
The libgrablogs.so is a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it colloct the log files from the system as many as possible. grablogs.conf is a configuration file that contains a set of lines mixed with sh(1) syntax codes and individual log files. libgrablogs.so will read the file try to get a log files list for gnome-system-log(1). Users can copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to overwrite the system default one. The grablogs.conf file contains the following configuration categories: [configs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a config file of System. The plugin will open the config file and try to find all system paths of the logs. [commands] Each line under this category is interpreted as a shell command and will be execute through a pipe. And each line of the out- put of the command will be interpreted as a log path. [logs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a log path. FILES
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf The system default configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p`/grablogs.conf The user specific configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so EMAMPLE
[configs] /etc/syslog.conf [commands] for i in `svcs -aH -o FMRI | grep -v lrc `; do svcprop -p restarter/logfile $i 2>/dev/null || svcprop -q -p restarter/alt_logfile $i 2>/dev/null ; done [logs] /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/cron /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/XFree86.0.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/cups/error_log SEE ALSO
gnome-system-log(1), pipelog.conf(1) gnome-utils 2.16.0 13 Oct 2006 grablogs.conf(4)
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