[IRCServices] Turning over logs with crontab?

[Mircea Damian]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:54:56PM +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >You have my vote for that. :)  I'm looking at log files that run into the
> >100's of megs, and it would be nice to shuffle them off to another place,
> >or automate it in some fashion.
> 
> Here's my idea.  At midnight, start a new logfile (eg.
> services.log.YYYYMMDD), close the old one, and update a symlink
> (services.log) to point to the latest logfile.  After a few days' running,
> the log directory would look like this:
> 
> services.log -> ./services.log.20001004
> services.log.20001001
> services.log.20001002
> services.log.20001003
> services.log.20001004

This would be nice.

> 
> An optional setting to compress/move logfiles a week old (or so) would also
> be helpful, I suspect.


No. That's why cron was built for. Just add your script there to compress
the logs and move/backup them wherever you like.

> 
> Just my 2 pence...
> 

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Mircea Damian
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