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Hi all,
i'm trying to configure a script that will find and gzip the searched files,
this is easy enough,

Code:

find /var/log/myfolder/*.log -type f -mtime +1 -exec gzip {} \;
cd /var/log/myfolder/
mv *gz myzipped_folder/

but what it would be very handy is to skip the files in use,because tomcat its going to check for some file that my script have gziped and move and alerting me by email for not enough space on HDD,when in reality there is enough,
you may suggests why don't you simply restart Tomcat,well i cant do that,to many jobs running 24h to 24h,so is any way to implement on my script the option skip files in use by Tomcat?

Thanks in advance
Charli.

If you can't get a short downtime to wrap that file, reducing the log level or adding more space to the filesystem might be an option.
Also logrotate is said to be able to truncate open log files. Never tried that but maybe worth trying it.

Thanks for the reply,
yes i already have

Code:

logrotate

for some log files,i wanted to implement this script now,till i configure all of the log files with logrotate,because the log files are really tons of them,so with a script it wil solve the issue temporarily,and give me the needed time to configure out logrotate.
Any suggestions?

You could build the list of files you want you get with find, but instead of executing the gzip, redirect the output to a temporary file, have a second list which works as your exclude, use something like a

Code:

grep -vf exludelist.txt outputofthefindcommand.txt

and decide by this to compress them or not.

i cant use an exclude list as the files in use aren't always the same,
they always change.

Listing files opened by a process is difficult as this can be very transient info, but

Code:

lsof -c tomcat

should list those files tomcat actually acts upon.

any suggestion on how to implement this on my script,and to skip the printed files?