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Supratik
Asked: 2011-04-06 22:40:09 +0800 CST

Logrotation when filenames includes date

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My log files are in the format "2011-03-28.log.php". Log files are created every day. I want to keep 5 days log and rest I want to remove it, which means only 5 log files will be kept and rest everything will be deleted.

Is it possible using Linux logrotate ?

log-rotation

1 Answers

  1. Sure. Look at the rotate option in the config file. http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html

    If you set it to rotate daily, and keep 5 files, then it will only keep the last 5 long files. Also, since your file name changes, look at the wildcard section of the above man page.

    You can also do this. 

    find /pathtologs/* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

    This will delete anything with a modification time of longer then 5 days.

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