How to roll logs automatically??
 

Hello all,
Does anyone know how I should go about rolling logfiles automatically?? I have several logs that I do not want to purge, but do want to archive in some fashion. What would be a good procedure to roll the logs. Possibly have them roll automatically via script out of a crontab. I am still green to linux, but picking it up quick. I am willing to dive into a heavy script if i could have some direction.

-sam

Why re-invent the wheel? :} ... chances are you have to
logrotate already installed, and just need to modify it a
bit for your needs?

do you know what the module name is? and where it may be.....on RH9 standard install?

thanks, sam

Depending on what syslog you use, it may even be a built-in function. I use metalogger, which keeps logs separate by itself. . .

The way I understand it, it's pretty standard on most systems. Try "whereis logrotate" to see if you have it and "man logrotate" to see how to use it.

logrotating directories
 

I have virtual servers and each virtual has its own serverlog. I keep all the serverlogs in a directory. If I specify the whole directory what will happen?

specifically.....
 

I have read man logrotate but it is not clear how to do directories.

here is the additional conf block I made

#webserver access logs
/usr/local/apache/logs {
rotate 5
size=100k
sharedscripts
postrotate
/sbin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
}

Here is what came back:
rotating pattern: /usr/local/apache/logs 102400 bytes (5 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
not running shared postrotate script, since no logs were rotated

and the logs were unchanged. :cry: I definitely have some over 100K, they're killing my diskspace
How can I clear out the ancient dreck, while keeping the last few weeks or so.

Thanks for any hlp!