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From: Dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Newbie: Rotating logfile monthly
Date: 2 Jan 1997 21:38:38 GMT
Organization: National Semi-Autonomous Republic of Dannyland
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Okay, here's what I wanna do, prolly via cron :)
Wanna rotate my Apache access_log, and other similiar such beasties,
every month. Basically, rename the thing with the likes of
access_log-[jan-dec]-1997, etc and maybe run compress on it.
Now, what buggers me, are what are some cool ways to get a
name of the current month, or the previous month, sitting in a
script. Some clever dealies with the date command, I suspect, but I'd
like to hear whaetver other anecdotal nonsense others have cooked
up. :)
Also, let's say I just wanted to, at the end ogf each month,
whack out the previous month's log and add it in to a compressed
file. I've noticed that when you run compress as an apendesque
operation(sorry, it's been a while) that you don't get compression on
all the data. ie, I had a multi-megabyte log that when compressed hit
200k. When I ran compress to add the same data on to it, filesize
doubled. The idea is I wanna compress the entire access_log for it's
entire history, not just for the month's worth of data every
month. It's nicer to compress many megs in to300k than to compress the
same in to an additional 200k/month.
Anyways, I think some clever folks might have some
inspirational words to share. Thanks!
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