syslog

[Daniel Fourie]

How can I limit the size of syslog.log in /var/adm/syslog/

Please Help

[steven Burgess_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Purge and compress it on a daily basis

/sbin/init.d/syslogd stop

mv /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.`date`

gzip /var/adm/syslog/syslog.`date`

find /var/adm/syslog ! -newer /var/adm/syslog/syslog.`date` -exec rm {}\;

Then restart which will create a new file

/sbin/init.d/syslogd start

HTH

Steve

[Rita C Workman]

I periodically clean up syslog using the SAM utility for this.

But till I get around to doing this...I recommend just writing a quick script to clean out any verbose and just informational type statements. And/or maybe a script that looks for important/critical things and sends you a page (or email) for the message...then puts the message in a special file and removes it from syslog. So far these have worked for me to keep syslog from growing too fast.

Just a thought,
Rita

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

I prefer putting Steven's script in crontab file, saving only last weeks syslog files

[Jon Finley]

I like the script.

But, after running gzip won't it have a 'gz' extension?

i.e.

syslog.`date`.gz ??

Jon

[Steven E. Protter]

Once a week the following things happen on my system.

cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /tmp/syslog.log.$DATEVAR

> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Zeros the little guy out.

Keeps a copy. DATEVAR has yyyymmdd in it.

SEP

[Rory R Hammond]

I keep several week of syslog.
Like Steve P using a cron job

I copy the sys log file

and then Compress the Copy
to save space

echo "" > /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

zero out the file keep you from haveing to stop and start
cron.

If you don't care about lots of history.
I would use via cron.
/sbin/init.d/syslog stop;
/sbin/init.d/syslog start;
This process would give you a OLDsyslog.log as if you rebooted.

Rory