Re: rotate logs when they reach a certain size

["Krishna Shekhar" <krishna shekhar in spectranet com>]

Hi, 

   Better use logrotate. Edit the configuration files in 
/etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ 

regards,
Krishna, RHCE
Network/Systems Engineer
Spectranet
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Keith R Wood writes: 

> find DIRECTORYNAME -size XX -type f -exec rm -f {} ";" 
>
> The above command will search starting in the directory DIRECTORYNAME
> (and below) and find all files that are of size XX and delete them. 
>
> This command could easily be put in a crontab file. 
>
> XX is in 512 byte blocks by default. If c follows XX then the units will
> be bytes, if k follows XX then the units would be kilobytes. 
>
> Hope this helps. 
>
> krw 
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:13, Genti Hila wrote:
> >  The cron jobs and logrotate seem to manipulate logs in a time basis, but i
> > was trying to figure out a way how to make the logs delete when they get big
> > to a certain size and not in a daily or weekly or whatever time basis. 
> >
> > Does anybody know how to do that in Redhat 9 ? 
> >
> > Genti 
>  
>
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