I used to use the sh shell script at http://www.xenos.net/software/rotate until logrotate came around. It lets you define perms, ownership, frequency and number of rotations. -----Original Message----- From: Shane Kerr [mailto:shane@time-travellers.org] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:28 AM To: loganalysisat_private Subject: Re: [logs] Log rotation tools On 2001-09-12 19:17:46 -0400, Jose Nazario wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Subba Rao wrote: > > > I am looking for log rotation tools on Linux. The only tool I came > > across is "logrotate". I could not find the home page for this tool > > and don't know if there are any other developments on logrotate. > > http://www.zbottech.com/d/av/54.htm <-- logrotate > > homebrew: cp logfile logfile.$TODAY && cp /dev/null logile > > just use logrotate. it works nicely and has a lot of configurable > options. I totally agree with this. If only it was written in a scripting language (Perl, Python, etc.) it would be perfect. ;) -- Shane Carpe Diem --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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