On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:51:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a recommended way wherein I keep the log for the > > last seven days only, with some process at boot-up or cron ? > > Seems like logrotate will fit your bill. > > Package: logrotate > Priority: important > Section: admin > Conffiles: > /etc/logrotate.conf 70593fe48cb39133328b42a560b5a8cf > Description: Log rotation utility > The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of > log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. > Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal > and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log > file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain > size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. >
Thanks for the input. I'll try to do an apt-get for logrotate if I get a Slink binary on one of the debian mirrors. Should be a handy thing to try out. USM Bish