topic logroate equivalent in Operating System - HP-UX

logroate equivalent

Richard Pereira_1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:03:10 GMT

Hi,

Do we have any HP products similar to what this does? http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/
i know SAM can do log trimming but can we automate easily these actions?

Thanks adv.
Richard

Re: logroate equivalent

Geoff Wild — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:05:15 GMT

I don't know of any HP products that do that...logrotate or you will have to use cron and write your own...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: logroate equivalent

Pete Randall — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:07 GMT

Richard,

I think the reason someone came up with logrotate is that HP didn't (and doesn't) provide such a facility.

Pete

Re: logroate equivalent

Thierry Poels_1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:26 GMT

hi,

HPUX does not have standard tools built in for this.
So either used tools like logrotate, newsyslog, ... or write your own script.

regards,
Thierry.

Re: logroate equivalent

Bill Hassell — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:39:28 GMT

There's nothing in HP-UX to do this automatically. Part of the problem is that there are dozens of logs, mostly ASCII, some binary, and the techniques needed to trim/archive the log (so that data is not lost) will vary. Attached is a generalized logtrim+archive script that you can customize. It allows you to specify how many archives of old logs will be kept and only trims+archives a logfile when it reaches a certain size.