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Old 02-29-2008
help with creating new log file
Hello,

The problem I am having now is... daily log file (xxxx.0228) exceeds it's max limit, stops logging and brings the daemon down. It won't start the daemon untill a new log file is created which happens at midnight. Once new daily log file starts, it brings up the daemon back up and starts logging again. So I need to create a script that will monitor daily logs lets say do a check every 5 mins. and if they are about to exceed the log file size limit, maybe compress the old daily log file and create a new daily log file or just create a new log file without compressing the old one and maybe send out an e-mail stating that a log file has exceeded it's limit and a new one has been created for the rest of the day. Btw I use ksh
Someone suggested logrotate.. would that help?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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torrus_monitor

TORRUS_MONITOR(8)						      torrus							 TORRUS_MONITOR(8)

NAME

       monitor - Torrus Monitor.

SYNOPSIS

       torrus monitor --tree=TREENAME [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command starts the Monitor process for the tree TREENAME. By default it forks into a daemon, sets the log output file to
       /var/log/torrus/monitor.TREENAME.log, performs one monitoring cycle, and sleeps until the next cycle is scheduled. In daemon mode the log
       file can be reopened by sending it a SIGHUP signal.

OPTIONS

       --nodaemon
	   Prevents the process from becoming a daemon and sets the log to STDERR.

       --runonce
	   Instructs the script to run once and exit. Implies --nodaemon.

       --delay=N
	   Makes the daemon sleep for N minutes before starting the first cycle.  This would happen on the daemon startup and also after each
	   configuration recompilation.  For example, when monitor and collector start simultaneously, the collector needs some time to retrieve
	   the data being monitored.

       --debug
	   Sets the log level to debug.

       --verbose
	   Sets the debug level to info.

       --help
	   Displays a help message.

FILES

       /etc/torrus/conf/torrus-siteconfig.pl
	   Torrus site configuration script.

       /var/log/torrus/monitor.TREENAME.log
	   Monitor's log for the tree TREENAME.

SEE ALSO

       torrus(8)

NOTES

       See more documentation at Torrus home page: http://torrus.org

AUTHOR

       Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yahoo.com>

torrus 2.03							    2013-07-26							 TORRUS_MONITOR(8)