On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:56:36PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > make sure cron is running....it already rotates log files > weekly/monthly... at least on the 1u raid5 debian box > i poke around in >
I need to do some reading on 'cron', and actually do some fine-tuning. I have 'cron' running but it does not seem to rotate my log files as routine. The size of my messages file is over 1 mb and it has not been rotated at all. If someone can give an input in this direction .. it would be of great help. > if you want to manually rotate your logs.... > > kill syslogd or sysklogd....than move it aside... > but you must also kill things like the web server > too that logs stuff into /var/log/httpd/ and more stuff to retart > Oh No! For a non-techie like me that would surely be a nightmare ! > simple silly way...that will always work... > - mv /var/log /var/log.old ; mkdir /var/log > - reboot > - and it should all be cleaned up by itself > No, this simple hack is not the answer. I did try it out because of its simplicity. However, the /var/log directory has other stuff which are needed by other programs. The following went kaput: a. dwww. b. Apache server of my two computer local network at home. c. news. There may be more, but I did not try others out, and restored the system back with the old /var/log. Thanks for the hint anyway! The stupid old me never thought of doing it at shut-down, with a fix on cron and boot-up. This lit up a spark in me though. The following had no problems with multiple reboots: #!/bin/sh # -------------------------------------- # Script to rotate /var/log/messages # to be run with root privileges # -------------------------------------- rm -rf /var/log/messages.old mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.old touch /var/log/messages reboot For a quick hack, this works. I think I will keep a tag on fast growers in the /var/log subdir, and try to attack specific files rather than move the whole subdirectory. USM Bish > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, USM Bish wrote: > > > > > Is there a recommended way wherein I keep the log for the > > last seven days only, with some process at boot-up or cron ? > > > > USM Bish > >
