topic Re: Extending SYSLOG in Operating System - HP-UX

Extending SYSLOG

Richard Barcellano_1 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:12:40 GMT

Hello,

I would like to have a 30 days retention of syslog in unix. Is there a way on how to do this?

Thanks

Re: Extending SYSLOG

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:16:24 GMT

Syslog keeps information since the last time the machine was rebooted.

If you only want to keep 30 days worth, you could stop and restart syslogd every month.

When syslogd starts (if you do it via '/sbin/init.d/syslogd start') it moves syslog.log to OLDsyslog.log. From there you could move OLDsyslog.log to syslog.log.NOV or whatever you desire.

Re: Extending SYSLOG

Peter Godron — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:04:45 GMT

Richard,
for suggested solutions please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=177825

Either:
- create a script
- use logrotate:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

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http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions. Your profile shows only 2 out of 28 answers received points.

Re: Extending SYSLOG

Calandrello — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:07:27 GMT

Friend
case schemes it is not restarted syslog not sera extinguished. apos reboot it saved syslog old in the OLDsyslog archive

Re: Extending SYSLOG

Coolmar — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:12:43 GMT

Hi Richard,

Your best bet would be to write your own script which would be fairly simple or use Logrotate (which I have used in the past and quite liked).
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

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