they should compress much better than that. I compress about 80mb of logs into <10mb.
"Chuck Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > A months logs uncompressed are about 120 MB and compressed about 45 MB > > > Chuck Larson > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.tombstone-gaming.com > > > Quoting "Brian A. Stumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Couple questions for you... > > > > How big (file size) is one months worth of log files? > > > > How big is one maps regular *.log file for you and how long maps do > > you > > run or how much disk space does one days worth of log files take up > > for > > you (uncompressed). Trying to get an idea of how big one months logs > > would > > be compressed for *my* situation... > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Chuck Larson wrote: > > > > > I wrote one that I use with cron that tars and gzips last months > > logs > > > into a seperate directory then deletes last months logs. > > > > > > I do this on the 15 of every month since I rarely have to go back > > more > > > than 2 weeks. > > > > > > You could modify this to suit your needs I'm sure > > > > > > > > > # ----- Start of script > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > # > > > # Archives last months hlds_linux logs > > > # > > > > > > MONTH=`date '+%m' --date='1 month ago'` > > > YEAR=`date '+%Y' --date='1 month ago'` > > > > > > # Location of HLDS log directory > > > LOGSDIR='/usr/games/hlife/hlds_l/cstrike/logs' > > > > > > # Location to place tarball > > > ARCHIVE='/usr/games/hlife/logArchives' > > > > > > if [ $YEAR ] > > > then > > > if [ $MONTH ] > > > then > > > cd $LOGSDIR > > > echo Archiving last months logs > > > if [ -e `tar -zcf > > $ARCHIVE/logs_$YEAR-$MONTH.tar.gz > > > L$MONTH*` ] > > > then > > > echo Removing last months logs > > > rm -rf L$MONTH* > > > else > > > echo Error Archiving logs > > > fi > > > else > > > echo Error determing last month value > > > fi > > > else > > > echo Error determining last month and year values > > > fi > > > > > > # --- END SCRIPT > > > Chuck Larson > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.tombstone-gaming.com > > > > > > > > > Quoting "Brian A. Stumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Has anyone written or found a shell script or the like used to > > > > automatically delete log files that are a certain number of days > > old? > > > > I'd > > > > like to keep a solid months worth of log files (31 maybe 35 days > > or > > > > so). > > > > I'm imagining a shell script that is croned to run once a day > > > > deleting > > > > files older than a certain age. I'm sure I could figure something > > out > > > > but > > > > thought I'd ask if anyone else is doing something similar. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > -- > > a8888b. > > Brian A. Stumm d888888b. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8P"YP"Y88 > > http://www.bs-linux.com 8|o||o|88 > > The Choice of a Gnu Generation 8' .88 > > 8`._.' Y8. > > # d/ `8b. > > #### ### .dP . Y8b. > > ## # d8:' " > > `::88b. > > ## ### ### ### ### ### ### ### d8" > > `Y88b > > ## # ## ### ## ## ## ## ## :8P ' > > :888 > > ## # ## ## ## ## ## ### 8a. : > > _a88P > > ## ### ## ## ## ## ### ._/"Yaa_ : .| > > 88P| > > ## # ### ## ## ## ## ## ## \ YP" `| 8P > > `. > > ## ## ### # ## ## ### ### ## ## / \._____.d| > > .' > > ######### ### #### #### ### ### ### ### `--..__)888888P`._.' > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
