Script to archive logs

christopher_m_bennett · 09-20-2009, 11:13 AM

I'm looking for a simple script to move and archive logs created by a windows application. The application starts a new log when it reaches a certain size. I want to move all logs except the one currently being written to so they can be processed and archived. I cant suspend the windows app and move all of them so I need a reliable way to identify the one still being written and skip that one. Any ideas would be helpful

Thanks

MS3FGX · 09-20-2009, 11:43 AM

How are the logs getting onto the Linux machine? Over a Samba share, or is the program running under WINE?

Regardless, you could use logrotate to archive the logs past a certain size and prevent the log from being removed while in use. logrotate will work with any file you point it to, it doesn't specifically have to be a Linux log file.

i92guboj · 09-20-2009, 01:15 PM

Yep, logrotate.

christopher_m_bennett · 09-21-2009, 03:26 AM

The files are on a share on the windows machine. The windows app actually does the log rotation, when the file size gets to 100k it closes the log and starts a new one so all I really need to do is move the files once an hour or so. The only problem is I cant move the one that is currently being written to so I need some way to skip that file.

MS3FGX · 09-21-2009, 08:56 AM

Well, certainly the filenames must be different once the log is rotated out. Whatever operations you perform (even if it is as simple as moving them to a different directory), you should just have to specify the rotated-out filename or extension.