how to clean nagios tar file good

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of jotando at free.fr
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:47 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] how to clean nagios tar file good
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Westerday by boss ask me about the capability to clean the nagios log
> files or
> shedule a period like every 12 month it raise the files of the least
13th
> month(only this 13h month like january 2004 if you are on january
2005) to
> able
> to view only the notification of each year and don't store all.
> 
> I thinks I wasn't too clear but if you have a subject that's look like
an
> answear please let me know that cause I've to stop my job at the end
of
> this
> month.

You can't within nagios but 'find' + 'cron' is your friend --

0 15 * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/local/nagios/var/archives/ -mtime +396
-type f -exec \rm {} \; &> /dev/null

The above should check and delete any archive files older than 396 days
(1 year + 31 days).

--
Marc


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