Shell Programming and Scripting

Does anyone have a good script to move log files from a cron?

There are a lot of logs, about 100 or more and they are constantly
being written too.

The better way is to use syslog for that.

Do you not have a logrotate command?

it turns out the problem is a little more serious.

df -h
/ is 51G used
/proc is 0k

du -shd /
/ is 38G used

du -shd /proc
/proc is 18G

because this is a zone on the root file system, I think
there is something in another zone or global zone that
is causing file system to grow but I can't find it.

Only suspicious directory is proc.

Does anyone know how to find the culprit or solution here?

which logrotate says no.

There are three kinds of logs.

1.) Logs that do not end.

application1.log
application2.log

I am planning to copy these to backup drive as follows:
cp application1.log /backup/application1.log
cp /dev/null applications1.log

2.) some logs that when they hit 50M create 7 files.

file.log
file.log.0
file.log.1
...etc...
file.log.7

I wont really be doing anything here as it seems these logs
are under control.

3.) others create daily logs such as:

file.2008-10-01.log
file.2008-10-02.log

I created a perl script to move all these files to backup drive when
older that three days.


However, I still can't find the extra 11-12G that df shows and du does not.

du and df measure different things. They will not show the same numbers.