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1. OS X (Apple)
In Mavericks, Apple has apparently moved control of log rotation to ASL. There's a 'ttl' value to determine how long log files will stick around for. I can compress them, change the way they're named, limit them by size, etc. But the one thing I cannot find is how to NOT keep one log file per... (0 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an application that rotate its log once it reaches 100mb and it keeps a total of 24 logs. I am trying to write a script to run daily to tar up the previous day logs files and move them to a different directory. here is a long listing of the logs in the directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 ... (6 Replies)
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3. Solaris
Hi All!
I seem to have a problem with log rotation, unless I am doing something wrong, I have type the following command for testing purposes to see if the -s option works but he did not:
logadm -w /var/adm/messages -C 8 -c -s 512k -t '/var/adm/messages.$n' -z 1
the file is now at this... (7 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
Good morning, I just want to know and collect ideas on this one. Regarding rotation of logs as I've observed it's not consistently functioning. I have a server with 8 Partitions, each partition has a dedicated directory for the logs that is needed and I set it every 5mins (300secs) the... (1 Reply)
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5. Solaris
hi folk,
need advise regarding the log rotation, i have the logadm set at
30 2 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm
so it supposed to rotate once per day, but now it rotated twice!
but someone my log will rotate at 2:30 AM, but then another 2 hours later, it creates a new and rotate a new log again,... (2 Replies)
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6. Solaris
HI,
What is log rotation in Solaris ? What are the essential steps to perform log rotation in Solaris? (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have application which to the heavy stdout and I have diverted the stdout to log file.
this log file is writing very heavily and we have a script which rotates the logs.
logic for rotation is smthing like
cp logfile logfile.1
cat /dev/null > logfile
this logic was working fine till we... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: navinmistry
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all.
Due to some reason I can not use HUP to rotate needed log files.
So I use the standard method:
cp $file $file.1
cat /dev/null > $file
But if Java application in this time writing the output to $file,
in the beginning of it appears many "^@^@^@^@^@^@".
How to avoid it? Or how... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mirusnet
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9. HP-UX
Can anyone post a sample log rotate and archive configuration on HP-UX?
I really don't know how to do that... :( (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: untamed
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all
Does anyone has an intersting script or a good freeware tool for log rotation that is good for Unix and Linux as well ?
My thanks in advance (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: yelalouf
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