use logrotate?
though logrotate runs as cron daily so it would not rotate logs hourly
unless you change it's cron job as well ?
Hmmm awkward. Is this why you want to do it using a script?
oh, from "man logrotate" :
Normally, logrotate is run as a daily cron job. It will not modify a
log multiple times in one day unless the criterium for that log is
based on the logïs size and logrotate is being run multiple times each
day, or unless the -f or -force option is used.
here is a logrotate file I use. redhat 9.1.
/var/log/kannel/*.log {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `/sbin/pidof bearerbox 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
/bin/kill -HUP `/sbin/pidof smsbox 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
it lives in /etc/logrotate.d/ as kannel
it also more or less confirms what you suggest would work I think :)
So if you could using logrotate and an hourly cron job to run it might
be another way to do it?
James.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:17:32PM +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote:
>
> Our kannel logs are getting bigger everyday... I hope to rotate them on an
> hourly basis.
>
> Can I just create a simple shell script to tar.gz each log then send a
> "killall -HUP bearerbox smsbox wapbox || true > /dev/null 2> /dev/null"?
>
> Sample: "smsbox_20041018_1500.tar.gz"
>
> I plan to use cron for the hourly log rotation.
> Is this safe that no log transactions will be lost?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fritz Mesedilla
