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  15     <B>Mircea Damian</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] Turning over logs with crontab?">dmircea at linux.kappa.ro
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  34 <PRE>On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:54:56PM +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:
  35 &gt;<i> &gt;You have my vote for that. :)  I'm looking at log files that run into the
  36 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;100's of megs, and it would be nice to shuffle them off to another place,
  37 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;or automate it in some fashion.
  38 </I>&gt;<i>
  39 </I>&gt;<i> Here's my idea.  At midnight, start a new logfile (eg.
  40 </I>&gt;<i> services.log.YYYYMMDD), close the old one, and update a symlink
  41 </I>&gt;<i> (services.log) to point to the latest logfile.  After a few days' running,
  42 </I>&gt;<i> the log directory would look like this:
  43 </I>&gt;<i>
  44 </I>&gt;<i> services.log -&gt; ./services.log.20001004
  45 </I>&gt;<i> services.log.20001001
  46 </I>&gt;<i> services.log.20001002
  47 </I>&gt;<i> services.log.20001003
  48 </I>&gt;<i> services.log.20001004
  49 </I>
  50 This would be nice.
  51
  52 &gt;<i>
  53 </I>&gt;<i> An optional setting to compress/move logfiles a week old (or so) would also
  54 </I>&gt;<i> be helpful, I suspect.
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  56
  57 No. That's why cron was built for. Just add your script there to compress
  58 the logs and move/backup them wherever you like.
  59
  60 &gt;<i>
  61 </I>&gt;<i> Just my 2 pence...
  62 </I>&gt;<i>
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  65 Mircea Damian
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