Trying to find logrotate

[Peter Gillis]

Hi, HPUX11i v1 rp2470
want to tryout a product called Logrotate. It was suggested I may find it in the HP Poprting and Archive centre, but I am having problems with this. CAn anyone point me to the centre or the product?

thanks
Maria

[Ivan Ferreira]

IS this what you are looking for?:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

[Peter Gillis]

Thanks Ivan...it is what looking for. Although this version is 2.5 and appears to be for ux 11.00. Do you know of a version for ux 11.11?

thanks
Maria

[Ivan Krastev]

Hi Maria,

here is attached script to rotate system log files. This script is from previous post here and it is for 11.11 .


regards,
ivan

[Peter Gillis]

Ivan
thanks for your replies. I am unable to open attachment. Have tried searching for logrotate in the forum/ tech knowledge db havenet seen anything yet that may be what you have tried sending in attachment. Is there another way to view the doc?
appreciate your time with this.
Maria

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

The logrotate for 11.0 should work on 11.11

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

I know, I have used it.

Rgds...Geoff

[Peter Gillis]

thanks Geoff. I have downloaded pkage, and will attempt install. Did you find the software easy to install and use ?
thanks
Maria

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Maria,
I attached a script by Bill Hassell which performs teh log rotae for any log files not only system log. It's easy to use and greatly customizable.
Take a look at it.
HTH,
Art

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Maria,
this is an example about configuration file.
Art

[rariasn]

Hi,

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/logrotate

rgs,

[Geoff Wild]

Actually - very easy.

# cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 5

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/adm/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 adm adm
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.



In /etc/logrotate.d create config files for logs you want to rotate:

root@sha1 [ /etc/logrotate.d ]
# ll
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 65 May 19 2004 maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 65 Mar 14 2005 named.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 161 Aug 19 2004 syslog

Example:

# cat maillog
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log {
rotate 5
weekly
}


The in root's cron add:

# logrotate
0 0 * * * /opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf >/tmp/logrotate.cron 2>&1



Rgds...Geoff