syslog

[Michael_33]

I saw the syslog.log keeps 4 day info. and
after 4 days, it will be moved to OLDsyslog.log
now I want the syslog.log keeps only one day
info. how can I do?

Thanks!

[Michael_33]

maybe needs a script?

[Kurt Beyers.]

There wasn't a system reboot as this will cause a copy of syslog.log to OLDsyslog.log and create a new syslog file?

Kurt

[Michael_33]

You are right!
but I want the syslog.log keeps only one day
info. the other will keep in OLDsyslog.log.
how can I do?

[Michael_33]

You are right!
but I want the syslog.log keeps only one day
info. the other will keep in OLDsyslog.log.
how can I do?

[Michael_33]

You are right!
but I want the syslog.log keeps only one day
info. the other will keep in OLDsyslog.log.
how can I do?

[Michael_33]

You are right!
but I want the syslog.log keeps only one day
info. the other will keep in OLDsyslog.log.
how can I do?

[Hartmut Lang]

You will find an answer in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x77928cc5e03fd6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

Good luck,
Hartmut

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Michael,

you should just write a simple script, which can do this for you:

cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.old

> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

The first line makes a copy of your existing logfile, the second line trims the syslog.log file to zero. Put this into a cron job, which you run each day on midnight. That should do it for you!

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Sukant Naik · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

First create a shell script
flush_syslog as shown below.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.`date +%d%b%y`
>/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

This above script will create a syslog file for each day with the time stamp.

And later schedule a cronjob for root as below which is executed everyday.

59 23 * * * sh /usr/sbin/flush_syslog

-Sukant