Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 21:39:29 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@sabami.seaslug.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: root@fledge.watson.org (System Administrator), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/monthly, /etc/daily -- log rotation Message-ID: <199605020439.VAA00231@one.sabami.seaslug.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 1996 12:10:21 -0700." <199605011910.MAA09979@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> Too bad you posted their code and we are all contaminated. 8-(.
Should that be taken as an invitation for everyone to post their favorite log
rotating scripts? Mine's called logrot:
#! /bin/sh
#
usage="
usage:
logrot [-Z | -gz] [-p COMPRESS_PROG] [-O COMPRESS_OPTS] [-nz] [-n NUM2KEEP] file ...
This script rotates the named files through a set of NUM2KEEP previous
versions of the files. Each backup is named by appending ".n" to the filename
where ".1" is the most recent backup file, ".2" is the 2nd most recent backup
file, etc. Each of the backup files is optionally compressed.
option -Z == '-p compress'
option -gz == '-p gzip'
option -nz == No Zero (don't zero-out the current file. Useful when what you
want is to maintain several versions of the same file
instead of rotate/truncating growing log files)
default COMPRESS_PROG = ':' # That is, no compression by default.
default COMPRESS_OPTS = '' # Options passed thru to compression prog.
default NUM2KEEP = 3 # Num of backup files to keep.
"
If you want the rest I can provide it, along with assurances that it's my
own original creation, free for the taking. :-)
Scott Blachowicz
scott@statsci.com / scott@sabami.seaslug.org
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