Automate the archiving and deletion of log files

[kateinseattle]

Hi:

Does anyone know of a available script that can help me out in managing accumulated logs?

specs:
- tars and gzips log files, after the files are a certain date
- deletes files after a specified time

 

[PHV]

man find

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[Annihilannic]

The logrotate utility is great for this, it's usually found on Linux but you can find or compile it for other OSs.

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

We have this to gzip all Oracle redo logs except the most recent. These are then deleted after a specified number of days within the backup script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cd /path/to/logs
ls -rt | grep -v gz | grep -v loglist> loglist
lines=`wc -l loglist | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -f2 -d ' '`
if [ $lines -gt 1 ]
then
head -`expr $lines - 1` loglist > loglist1
for file in `cat loglist1`
do
gzip $file 2> /dev/null
done
fi

Oh, and apologies for the UUOC there, this was written in more innocent times!

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