Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs
Hi Renat!
This was exactly what I was looking for! logrotate cannot handle the
logs that emerge creates unfortunately so I had to use a custom script.
I had almost forgot the script that cleans up /tmp. So I created two
cron jobs, one in cron.weekly to bzip2 the newly created files with
find /var/log/portage/ -type f -name *.log -exec bzip2 -9q '{}' \;
(you really have to use when you are using wildcards in -name if
you don't want your find to have unpredictable results ;-)
and one in cron.monthly to delete the old month's log files with
find /var/log/portage/ -not -type d -mtime +30 -print0 |
xargs --null --no-run-if-empty rm -f
Thank you a lot!
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 02:26:41 +0200
Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 10 August 2003 01:11, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote:
It would be nice if the logs that emerge creates were compressed
with gzip of even better with bzip2. Another nice feature would be
to automatically erase the old ones. Are these features already
implemented? The reason I'm asking for these because recently I did
a du --max-depth=1 -k /var/log/ and I got:
4 /var/log/news
4 /var/log/emerge
316 /var/log/cups
4 /var/log/mysql
272936 /var/log/portage
152 /var/log/samba
281300 /var/log
270Megs of log files is kinda too much isn't it? ;-) There were logs
of emerges done in May in there! For now I'am erasing these manually
myself but I'd like to find a way to automate it. Thanks!
Well, you can make a script and put it, for example, under
/etc/cron.weekly . Here is an example copied directly from the 'find'
info page:
# cut here
Removing old files from `/tmp' is commonly done from `cron':
find /tmp /var/tmp -not -type d -mtime +3 -print0 |
xargs --null --no-run-if-empty rm -f
find /tmp /var/tmp -depth -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -exec rmdir
{} \;
The second `find' command above uses `-depth' so it cleans out
empty
directories depth-first, hoping that the parents become empty and can
be removed too. It uses `-mindepth' to avoid removing `/tmp' itself
if it becomes totally empty.
# cut here
You could change the lines to remove the files from /var/log/portage
instead of /tmp and put them under cron.something .
For compression you can use something like this:
find /var/log/portage/ -type f -name *.log -exec bzip2 -9q '{}' ';'
If you put it in file under cron.daily your portage log files will be
compressed once every day (if they are not compressed yet).
These too scripts would probably do what you want: compress the logs
and remove the old ones.
Cheers,
Renat
P.S. I don't have these scripts in my cron, just created them while
writing this, but I just compressed my /var/log/portage with bzip and
the size went down from 83MB to 3MB (with gzip 4MB). Those logs are
mostly pretty small, there were only few big ones like 17MB for
openoffice, 10MB for glibs, etc.
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 02:11:13 +0300 Theofilos Intzoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if the logs that emerge creates were compressed with gzip of even better with bzip2. Another nice feature would be to automatically erase the old ones. Are these features already implemented? The reason I'm asking for these because recently I did a du --max-depth=1 -k /var/log/ and I got: 4 /var/log/news 4 /var/log/emerge 316 /var/log/cups 4 /var/log/mysql 272936 /var/log/portage 152 /var/log/samba 281300 /var/log 270Megs of log files is kinda too much isn't it? ;-) There were logs of emerges done in May in there! For now I'am erasing these manually myself but I'd like to find a way to automate it. Thanks! Well, this taught me to read the fine print! I'd never changed anything but the compiler flags and make settings in /etc/make.conf, so of course I have no emerge logs! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage logs
On Sunday 10 August 2003 01:11, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote:
It would be nice if the logs that emerge creates were compressed
with gzip of even better with bzip2. Another nice feature would be to
automatically erase the old ones. Are these features already
implemented? The reason I'm asking for these because recently I did a
du --max-depth=1 -k /var/log/ and I got:
4 /var/log/news
4 /var/log/emerge
316 /var/log/cups
4 /var/log/mysql
272936 /var/log/portage
152 /var/log/samba
281300 /var/log
270Megs of log files is kinda too much isn't it? ;-) There were logs of
emerges done in May in there! For now I'am erasing these manually
myself but I'd like to find a way to automate it. Thanks!
Well, you can make a script and put it, for example, under /etc/cron.weekly .
Here is an example copied directly from the 'find' info page:
# cut here
Removing old files from `/tmp' is commonly done from `cron':
find /tmp /var/tmp -not -type d -mtime +3 -print0 |
xargs --null --no-run-if-empty rm -f
find /tmp /var/tmp -depth -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
The second `find' command above uses `-depth' so it cleans out empty
directories depth-first, hoping that the parents become empty and can
be removed too. It uses `-mindepth' to avoid removing `/tmp' itself if
it becomes totally empty.
# cut here
You could change the lines to remove the files from /var/log/portage instead
of /tmp and put them under cron.something .
For compression you can use something like this:
find /var/log/portage/ -type f -name *.log -exec bzip2 -9q '{}' ';'
If you put it in file under cron.daily your portage log files will be
compressed once every day (if they are not compressed yet).
These too scripts would probably do what you want: compress the logs and
remove the old ones.
Cheers,
Renat
P.S. I don't have these scripts in my cron, just created them while writing
this, but I just compressed my /var/log/portage with bzip and the size went
down from 83MB to 3MB (with gzip 4MB). Those logs are mostly pretty small,
there were only few big ones like 17MB for openoffice, 10MB for glibs, etc.
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[gentoo-user] portage logs
It would be nice if the logs that emerge creates were compressed with gzip of even better with bzip2. Another nice feature would be to automatically erase the old ones. Are these features already implemented? The reason I'm asking for these because recently I did a du --max-depth=1 -k /var/log/ and I got: 4 /var/log/news 4 /var/log/emerge 316 /var/log/cups 4 /var/log/mysql 272936 /var/log/portage 152 /var/log/samba 281300 /var/log 270Megs of log files is kinda too much isn't it? ;-) There were logs of emerges done in May in there! For now I'am erasing these manually myself but I'd like to find a way to automate it. Thanks! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
