[rsyslog] central logserver log rotation

Johnny Tan linuxweb at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 16:06:48 CET 2008


Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> /etc/rsyslog.conf:
> 
> 	#####################################################
> 	# Log everything to a per host daily logfile        #
> 	#####################################################
> 	$template DailyPerHostLogs,"/var/log/syslog/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%$DAY%/%HOSTNAME%/messages.log"
> 	*.* -?DailyPerHostLogs
> 
> /etc/cron.hourly/syslog-bzip2:
> 
> 	find /var/log/syslog/2008 -type f -mtime +1  -name "*.log" -exec bzip2 '{}' \;

Thanks for the example. And ... I was just thinking of doing 
some gzip/bzip on my morning commute today, so your cron 
example comes just in time too :).

johnn


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