script to find and compress old logs that are not compresses
 

we have a system that generates large logs in hourly basis with the name format ex: addressprint_log.20111226000000. The system is supposed to compress logs older than 7 days but sometimes it miss logs filling up space.

I started to use gzip with find command but it goes through all logs from the beginning and passing ones already zipped.

Can someone please help with a script to find and compress logs older than 7 days which are not already compresses?

thanks in advance.

I think what you are looking for is logrotate.

"man logrotate" for more info.

You can simply schedule below line in crontab