On Thursday 26 February 2004 5:43 pm, FRANCOIS Dufour wrote:
> hi to all
> my video chatt aplication have to serve image from user end to other user
> end the log file is simply growing every second is there a way to keep only
> like the 20 last request in log?
>
> thank in advance
>
>

to be run from cron: 

#!/bin/bash
logfile="/var/log/somelog"
logsize=`ls -s $logfile | awk '{ print $1 }'`
date=`date -I`

if [[ ! $logsize > 200000 ]] ; then 
        tar czf mylog.${date}.tar.gz $logfile
        rm -rf $logfile && touch $logfile       
fi

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