10-12-2001
The first thing that popped into my mind was to use the <i>find</i> command. Something along the lines of:
<i>find /wherever/apache/logs -name access_log.* -mtime 1 | xargs rm</i>
I like using xargs because I'm lazy and don't like messing with the -exec option, although that would work too... You want to create some dummy files in a tmp directory to try this on, because I'm not 100% sure if I wrote that right.
Check the man page for find for more details / options.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
penlogd
PENLOGD(1) General Commands Manual PENLOGD(1)
NAME
penlogd - consolidate web server logs
SYNOPSIS
penlogd [-fd] [-j dir] [-l logfile] [-n N] [-p pidfile] [-u user] port
EXAMPLE
penlogd -l /var/log/access_log -p /var/run/penlogd.pid 10000
DESCRIPTION
Penlogd receives log entries from Pen and from each of the web servers. It consolidates the entries by replacing the source addresses in
each entry with the "real" client address and writes the result to stdout or to the file given on the command line. This completely
removes the need for postprocessing with mergelogs, since the logs are already merged.
Pen must be instructed to send its log to penlogd. See HOWTO and pen man page for details.
Sending penlogd a HUP signal will make it close and reopen the logfile, unless it is logging to stdout. Rotate the log like this:
mv access_log access_log.1 kill -HUP `cat <pidfile>`
where <pidfile> is the file containing pen's process id.
Sending penlogd a TERM signal will make it close the log file and exit cleanly.
OPTIONS
-d Turn on debugging. The output goes to stderr if we are running in the foreground (see -f) and to syslog (facility user, priority
debug) otherwise.
-f Stay in foreground.
-j dir Run in a chroot environment.
-l logfile
Write output into logfile.
-n N Number of pen log entries to cache (default 1000).
-p pidfile
Write process id into pidfile.
-u user
Run as a different user.
port The UDP port where penlogd receives log entries.
SEE ALSO
pen(1), penlog(1), webresolve(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Ulric Eriksson, <ulric@siag.nu>.
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