System Log files on HP-UX 11i

[Shivkumar]

Hey Guys,

Can anyone tell me on managing system log files on HP-UX 11i in an efficienct way ?

Thanks in advance.
Shiv

[Rick Garland]

SAM can do truncating of log files.
Also the is logrotate, get from gatekeep.cs.utah.edu.

You can input a list of log files to keep track of and it will do so.

[Kent Ostby]

Check out this previous thread as well:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=185250

[Steven E. Protter]

For me, managing system log files means managing the space they take up.

I identify a list of big ones in a configuration file.

I use the name /var/log/list

Once a week a cron job runs that looks a bit like this:


while read -r filename
do
cp $filename /tmp
> $filename
done < /var/log/list

/var/log/list looks like this

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log

...

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SEP