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List:       syslog-ng
Subject:    Re: [syslog-ng] does remove_if_older still work?
From:       Balazs Scheidler <bazsi () balabit ! hu>
Date:       2005-06-14 9:04:30
Message-ID: 1118739871.4011.1.camel () bzorp ! balabit
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:11 -0500, sawall wrote:
> so, is there another way to do this, or is my best bet to do the
> following via cron:
> 
> find /pathto/logs/* -ctime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; 2> /dev/null
> 

the problem is that the file _is_ changed, new messages appear in it
from time to time as otherwise remove_if_older would remove it on its
own, therefore -ctime +7 would not be ok.

If you'd add somethink like $R_DAY in your filename, then you'd be safe
as that would ensure that no new entries will be written to it for a
week.

-- 
Bazsi

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