Re: Solaris log files

["Lance A. Brown" <brown9@niehs.nih.gov>]

Todd Williams <todd@macsch.com> writes:

> I've always considered writing some tool that would allow you to manage
> and age all your log files from one config file.  Maybe the config file
> would be a table that lists the base logfile name, the interval at which
> it gets aged, the number of logs or amount of space to keep online before
> deleting them, etc.

Red Hat Linux ships with the logrotate program.  It is a configurable
log file rotater that can scripts actions to take before and after
rotating files (HUP'ing syslogd, for example) and is driven by a
config file.  I use it to automatically run log analysis reports after 
the files are rotated out.

--[Lance]