Subj : log rotation?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Robert Bashe
Date : Wed Sep 28 2011 07:14:10

Kurt Weiske wrote to All on Tuesday September 27 2011 at 13:05:

KW> What do you folks do to rotate logs?

I don't use Argus or Windows for my fido computer, but eComStation (OS/2) and 
CantaLoup (a Binkley offshoot), but in my case I have an event once a day, at 
midnight, where the mailer is stopped, all the log files are renamed for the 
day of the current week (*.mon, *.tue ...) and put into a weekly archive (ZIP). 
I then keep five weeks of back archives for all processes (mailer, tosser, 
nodelist compiler and everything else). When a new weekly archive is made, the 
oldest of the five-week archives is deleted.

I do all this with two REXX scripts, one to stop everything while the logs are 
renamed and archived and the other to do the actual work and start things again 
when finished. At the same time, the filebase is updated and indexed. It's all 
very logical, but unless you know my system quite complex to describe.

If anyone is interested, I can send you the REXX scripts I use, which are 
pretty extensively commented.

Cheers, Bob

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