Logrotate trivial
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General purpose
This one is not finished and is broken... I was trying to write a one-liner log rotator.
#!/bin/sh # # This rotates a set of file. # maxdays=5;rm -f day${maxdays} ; for i in `seq 1 ${maxdays}`; do num=`expr ${i} - ${maxdays}`;num=`expr ${num} \* -1`;echo "$num";newnum=`expr ${num} + 1`; if [ -f day${num} ]; then mv day${num} day${newnum};fi; done ; touch day1
Trivial Apache log rotation script
This is a trivial log rotator for Apache. Run it from cron monthly to keep 3 months of logs. This isn't so useful these days as most systems now have Red Hat's "logrotate" installed by default.
#!/bin/sh ################################################ LOG_PATH=/var/www/logs APACHECTL=/var/www/apache2/bin/apachectl ################################################ cd $LOG_PATH mv -f access_log_1.gz access_log_2.gz mv -f access_log access_log_1 gzip access_log_1 touch access_log chmod 644 access_log mv -f error_log_1.gz error_log_2.gz mv -f error_log error_log_1 gzip error_log_1 touch error_log chmod 644 error_log mv -f ssl_request_log_1.gz ssl_request_log_2.gz mv -f ssl_request_log ssl_request_log_1 gzip ssl_request_log_1 touch ssl_request_log chmod 644 ssl_request_log mv -f ssl_engine_log_1.gz ssl_engine_log_2.gz mv -f ssl_engine_log ssl_engine_log_1 gzip ssl_engine_log_1 touch ssl_engine_log chmod 644 ssl_engine_log $APACHECTL graceful 2>&1 >/dev/null