help with a script that deletes files more than X days old

BrianK · 06-14-2004, 02:05 PM

I want to delete my httpd access logs that are more than a week old. Any idea of a command or script that would do that? Something I could make a cron job & run once a day?

(just noticed my web server had 29 gigs of access logs over the last few months - a bit much

)

FYI: my access log rotates daily, so this script/command needs to remove all files older than X date, not just clear out one file.

Thanks

david_ross · 06-14-2004, 02:25 PM

What are you using for your logrotation? There should be an option to do it with that.

Donboy · 06-14-2004, 02:29 PM

Check /etc/logrotate.conf... there should be something in there for apache logs that will tell it when to delete old ones... like if it says "rotate 7" then it will keep 7 days' worth of logs before it deletes the oldest one.

BrianK · 06-14-2004, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Donboy
Check /etc/logrotate.conf... there should be something in there for apache logs that will tell it when to delete old ones... like if it says "rotate 7" then it will keep 7 days' worth of logs before it deletes the oldest one.

Thanks - I configured it as such (just now):

Code:

"/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {
           rotate 7
           nomail
           postrotate
           endscript
       }

Does this seem resonable?

Do I need to execute anything to make this go or does it check it every time the log rotates?

Thanks again.

Donboy · 06-14-2004, 03:25 PM

You can use wildcards... so maybe you can rewrite it like...

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*.log {
           rotate 7
           nomail
           postrotate
           endscript
           /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd 
}

Notice I also added a line in there to send httpd a HUP signal. This is needed because when you erase the log files, apache need to be restarted.

This should all happen with your regular cron jobs. Take a look in /etc/cron.daily and see if there is a file in here that talks about logrotate. The contents of this file should execute logrotate and use logrotate.conf as the config file... therefore running the commands you are showing here.

Take a look at some of the other stuff in logrotate.conf and get an idea of what other parameters you can give to the apache logs. You can control a great deal of stuff using various commands.

BrianK · 06-14-2004, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Donboy
You can use wildcards... so maybe you can rewrite it like...

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*.log { rotate 7 nomail postrotate endscript /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd }

Notice I also added a line in there to send httpd a HUP signal. This is needed because when you erase the log files, apache need to be restarted.

This should all happen with your regular cron jobs. Take a look in /etc/cron.daily and see if there is a file in here that talks about logrotate. The contents of this file should execute logrotate and use logrotate.conf as the config file... therefore running the commands you are showing here.

Take a look at some of the other stuff in logrotate.conf and get an idea of what other parameters you can give to the apache logs. You can control a great deal of stuff using various commands.

Excellent. Thanks for the help.