FW: log rotation - how many files are kept?

[Sjaak Nabuurs]

Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:

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>From: nagios-users On Behalf Of Stijn Gruwier
>Sent: 18 January 2007 07:37
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>>I'm aware that nagios is able to copy the nagios.log file to the 
>>archives directory on an hourly/daily/weekly/monthly basis. It seems 
>>that nagios keeps that files forever since I've got 11 archived weekly
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>>logs. But the word 'rotation' suggests that at some time the old ones 
>>are removed and replaced by newer logs. Is this the case? I searched
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>>mailing list and the documentation but I couldn't find the answer.
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>I also came across this problem and have written a script to organise
>our archived logs.  At present I run it manually, but it could be a cron
>script.  What is does is to keep up to 180 logs (1 per day for 6
>months), but all but most recent 5 are zipped.  The numbers in the
>previous sentence are parameters at the head of the script.
>Unfortunately the form of the name of the archived logs is not suitable
>for processing with standard logrotate.  I am happy to let others use
>this script if a) no one has anything better, and b) if someone can tell
>me where to submit it.
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Is it not that nagios is extracting data from these logs for different 
type reporting ?
I think the best way to submit your script is in www.nagiosexchange.com


Sjaak

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