4 Apr
2002
4 Apr
'02
18:33
While we're on the topic, a UNIX guru at a previous company had all kinds of scripts and cron jobs that checked file sizes of logfiles and either waved flags at the operator or else regularly copied current contents to a backup location and then zeroed out the contents of live files (much as you suggest).
Are there some canned utilities that do this stuff in Linux, or does everybody re-invent the wheel on their own system?
If we are using SuSE we only have to edit /etc/logfiles :-)