Or you could change your log rotation system altogether, and use
logrotate if your OS has it.
The general idea is : you dom't use rotatelogs, you write the logs
normally to a file.
With cron, you regularly run logrotate, as often as you want.
It has a configuration file that tells it which files to rotate, how
often, in function of which criteria, what to do before and after the
rotation, how many "back-copies" to keep before starting to overwrite
them etc.. It does this cleanly and without necessarily interrupting
the process whose files it is rotating.
"man logrotate" under Linux is pretty explicit.
Ben Ricker wrote:
Rotatelogs, as far as I know, does not delete logs. It merely rotates
them. If you want to delete for size, you could do some fancy work with
'ls', cut out the size, compare it to a specific number you want, and
then delete it if it is over that size.
That seems kludgy though. What I do is use find on the directory and use
-ctime +N where 'N' is the number of days you want logs to stick around.
Then you can pipe it through |xargs rm -f. This will delete any logs
that have been around since N days after creation.
--Thanks,
Ben Ricker
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I use my cat's name for a password: he is called [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I
change his name every 60 days.
On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Agnello George wrote:
HI
I have atleast 20 virtual host on my Apache ( 2.2.8 ) server and am
having a difficulty in deleting the logs after it reaches a certain
limit.
my vhost directive look something like this :
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.244:80>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ServerName agnello.sys.qualiproj.qualispace.com
ServerAlias www.agnello.sys.qualiproj.qualispace.com
DocumentRoot /websites/agnello.com/web
ErrorLog /websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.error_log
CustomLog /websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.access_log
combined
TransferLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs
/websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.access_log 5M"
TransferLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs
/websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.error_log 5M"
</VirtualHost>
Is it possible to delete the logs ( with Apache's rotatelog command )
after the log file reaches a certain size limit.
thanks
--Regards
Agnello Dsouza
www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com
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