Randy McMurchy wrote:
The floor is now open for discussion about which packages folks use,
or if you use a home-brewed script, please contribute. If we're going
to add a package to BLFS, it may as well be the best/most favorite/you
pick the adjective/ package.
I have no use for anything even a day old. My builds hardly last a
week! Attached an old version of cleanup. If I had time to setup
fcron, I'd update it. All logs aren't in this script.
--
David Jensen
#!/bin/bash
# cleanup, version 2
# Run as root, of course.
LOG_DIR=/var/log
ROOT_UID=0 # Only users with $UID 0 have root privileges.
LINES=75 # Default number of lines saved.
E_XCD=66 # Can't change directory?
E_NOTROOT=67 # Non-root exit error.
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ]
then
echo "Must be root to run this script."
exit $E_NOTROOT
fi
cd $LOG_DIR || {
echo "Cannot change to necessary directory." >&2
exit $E_XCD;
}
tail -$LINES sys.log > mesg.temp # Saves last section of message log file.
mv mesg.temp sys.log # Becomes new log directory.
tail -$LINES user.log > mesg.temp
mv mesg.temp user.log
tail -$LINES daemon.log > mesg.temp
mv mesg.temp daemon.log
tail -$LINES scrollkeeper.log > mesg.temp
mv mesg.temp scrollkeeper.log
cat /dev/null > wtmp
cat /dev/null > btmp
cat /dev/null > lastlog
echo "Logs cleaned up."
exit 0
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