Re: {bb} BBOUT extremely large on bb16e1

[John Horne <john.horne@plymouth.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 21:37 +0000, Philip Clark wrote:
> I posted this earlier, but it hasn't appeared yet. Apologies if
> it shows up twice.
> 
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 01:47, Joshua Au wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >     Is there an available script that I could use for bb16e1 to rotate the 
> > logs?
> 
What we do is modify runbb.sh very slightly to include a 'rotate' option
after the stop/start ones:

   rotate )
                DATESTAMP=`$DATE "+%m-%d-%Y"`
                $CP $BBHOME/BBOUT $BBHOME/BBOUT.$DATESTAMP
                $CAT /dev/null > $BBHOME/BBOUT
                gzip $BBHOME/BBOUT.$DATESTAMP
                echo "Big Brother log rotated on $DATESTAMP"
                $FIND $BBHOME -type f -name "BBOUT.*gz" -mtime +200
-exec $RM -f {} \;
                exit 0
                ;;

Then simply in the BB users crontab we put:

     1 0 1 * * $HOME/bb/runbb.sh rotate >/dev/null

to rotate the BBOUT once a month.


John.

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