Re: [Plug] Log rotating

[Alexander John Batyi <bud@buxcom.net>]

> > in particular.  Why is this?  What funciton actually handles the log file
> > rotation?  What exactly is this rotation?  And is there any "standard
> > sysadmin" way of rotating these logs?  Whew...  probably too many
> > questions, all answered by one asnwer.  Any suggestions or ideas would be
> > helpful :-)
> Redhat (and probably other distributions) comes with the logrotate package,
> which contains the logrotate(8) utility.

Basically it's something like this;

mv /path/log.6 /path/log.7
mv /path/log.5 /path/log.6
mv /path/log.4 /path/log.5
mv /path/log.3 /path/log.4
mv /path/log.2 /path/log.3
mv /path/log.1 /path/log.2
mv /path/log.0 /path/log.1
mv /path/log /path/log.0
>/path/log

I haven't seen the logrotate utility but I assume it does something
similar.  If you do this daily you save a weeks backup of logs.  Weekly
it would save two months, etc.  You could gzip or whatever and rotate
the compressed files.  Use your imagination!  <grin>


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