Re: Log rotation and management

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:42 -0700, Jared Still wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> As I now have several eBiz apps systems to care for, I am
> wallowing
> in a sea of log files.
>
>
> Lots of suggestions for logrotate.
>
> The plot thickens. A number of logs associated with Oracle APPs
> cannot simply be copied and truncated.
>
> ML docs: 252110.1, 550566.1, 397499.1, and many others I'm sure

logrotate has the capability to execute arbitrary commands in pre/postrotate directives, may help?

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html

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