removing logs older than 30 days

linuxN3w8ie · 11-21-2006, 06:55 AM

Hello,

Im new to linux and i have a slight problem, i have logs that i dont need and there's lots of them i was wondering if there is a way to remove all of them in one go where the logs are older than 30 days. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

acid_kewpie · 11-21-2006, 06:58 AM

well generally you'd look into logrotate, but as you've given us no information whatosever about what these logs are we can't really help much more can we?

linuxN3w8ie · 11-21-2006, 09:08 AM

Well i'm using an oracle product called collaboration suite on linux, and it archives the logs, i dont need the logs that are older than 30 days as a backup was taken and anything older than 30 days is not necessary.

acid_kewpie · 11-21-2006, 01:27 PM

well fair enough, no idea what the logging structure would be there, but as above, check out logrotate. you will already have it running on your system, and it'd be trivial to ask it to rotate another log file.