Extending SYSLOG

[Richard Barcellano_1]

Hello,

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

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

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.

[Peter Godron]

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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[Calandrello]

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

[Coolmar]

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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