cronolog

tinaa · 06-27-2003, 02:21 AM

Hello All,

I have setup cronolog for creating logs in access.log.HHDDMMYYYY. which creates log file every hour. I want to write a script which will delete the log files which are older than 48 hrs ?

Could any one please put me on the correct path ?

Regards,

soob · 06-27-2003, 04:08 AM

Even without the special filenames... have a look at 'find'. if you change to the directory with those logfiles in it, try this: punctuation very important!

find . -ctime +2 exec ls -l {} \;

Actually that one just lists them so you can see if it's picked the right files. This should list files that were created more than 2 days ago but you may want to adjust it - see "man find". When it's listing the right files, replace "ls -l" with "rm -f".

tinaa · 06-27-2003, 04:41 AM

Hello and thanx for the reply,
When i execute this it says :
find . -ctime +2 exec ls -l {} \
>
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [path...] [expression]

soob · 06-29-2003, 04:00 AM

sorry, my bad. - in front of exec, and the ; MUST be on the end.

find . -ctime +2 -exec ls -l {} \;