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 Message 24 
 Robert Bashe to Kurt Weiske 
 log rotation? 
 28 Sep 11 07:14:10 
 
Kurt Weiske wrote to All on Tuesday September 27 2011 at 13:05:

KW> What do you folks do to rotate logs?

I don't use Argus or Windows for my fido computer, but eComStation (OS/2) and
CantaLoup (a Binkley offshoot), but in my case I have an event once a day, at
midnight, where the mailer is stopped, all the log files are renamed for the
day of the current week (*.mon, *.tue ...) and put into a weekly archive
(ZIP). I then keep five weeks of back archives for all processes (mailer,
tosser, nodelist compiler and everything else). When a new weekly archive is
made, the oldest of the five-week archives is deleted.

I do all this with two REXX scripts, one to stop everything while the logs are
renamed and archived and the other to do the actual work and start things
again when finished. At the same time, the filebase is updated and indexed.
It's all very logical, but unless you know my system quite complex to describe.

If anyone is interested, I can send you the REXX scripts I use, which are
pretty extensively commented.

Cheers, Bob

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