Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)

2003-11-19 Thread John Coates 
 
 When I tried doing the line you defined above, I get this output:
 
 find: paths must precede expression
 Usage: find [path...] [expression]
 rm: too few arguments
 Try `rm --help' for more information.
 
 So I did it this way:
 
 find /var/log -type f -mtime 5 | xargs rm
 
 And it works.  The only thing that catches my attention is that in the
 'find' man page, '-mtime' says:
 
  -mtime n
   File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
 
 This would seem to me to mean a static multiplyer.  In other words,
 '-mtime 30' would be any logs created exactly 30 days ago - not 31, not
 29.
 
 How would you state 'anything over 30 days'?  And why did you create the
 syntax the way you did above; with the '.' after 'find' and the order of
 commands?
 
 Thanks!
 

find /var/log -type f -mtime +30

will find any file in the /var/log directory that is more than 30 days
old.  Find expects one argument which is a path to a directory to start
the search (which can be /var/log or . if your cwd is /var/log), then
there are tons of possible arguments.  The path must be given first, but
the arguments can usually be given in any order (unless you get fancy).

John

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Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)

2003-11-16 Thread Michael Holt 
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:34, David E. Fox wrote:
  My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying =
  to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu=
 
 Please don't post HTML.
 
 Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up 
 now? At any rate, find would do the job:
 
 # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm
 
 That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago.

When I tried doing the line you defined above, I get this output:

find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [path...] [expression]
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.

So I did it this way:

find /var/log -type f -mtime 5 | xargs rm

And it works.  The only thing that catches my attention is that in the
'find' man page, '-mtime' says:

 -mtime n
  File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.

This would seem to me to mean a static multiplyer.  In other words,
'-mtime 30' would be any logs created exactly 30 days ago - not 31, not
29.

How would you state 'anything over 30 days'?  And why did you create the
syntax the way you did above; with the '.' after 'find' and the order of
commands?

Thanks!


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