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How backup files with logrotate and Amazon S3?
I would like to create a new standard of two things:
how long would be generated and be rotated the logs generated by my applications ?
how to transfer the logs to Amazon S3, as a backup server ?.
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logrotate cron job not rotating certain logs
I added two scripts in "logrotate.d" directory for my application logs to be rotated.
This is the config for one of them:
<myLogFilePath> {
compress
copytruncate
delaycompress
dateext
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Rsyslog Output Files - Reload on Rotate?
Good morning,
I'm new to everything sysadmin.
I"m trying to set a few server processes to log to rsyslog (for future shipping abilities, etc.), but want to have clean log files on my local machine ...
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Logrotate 'nocompress' not honoured
Using RHEL6.1 & logrotate 3.7.8-12.
I'm able to use logrotate & rotate my files. What I don't want is
compression. For some reason, even after specifying 'nocompress', some
files are getting ...
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Rotating logs generated by a process that logs to stdin
I have a long running process, that writes its log file to stdout. I would like to save this output to different files, automatically maintain these files (like deleting/archiving the old ones), ...
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Logrotater Daily situation
Every day I would like to run logrotate on /var/trafficap/captured/arch/ and zip all the zip packages I have for each day ( its 1 package.zip with a name like this :
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Rotating Iptables logs with logrotate
I'm running CentOS6 and I configured rsyslog to monitor my iptables warning messages and dump them in /var/log/iptables.log. I went through my logrotate.d/syslog file and added iptables.log so ...
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How can I rotate many log files into a different subdirectory per rotation?
I have a directory with many log files, all of which I would like to rotate daily. For organizational purposes I would like to be able to move the rotated logs into a different directory (or ...
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nginx - log access and error to pipe and use multilog to log rotate
What I am trying to do:
Log rotate nginx access and error log using multilog
My approach:
Log nginx access and error to a pipe, so I can have another process that runs multilog that reads from that ...
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0answers
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Logrotate directories (not files)
I have an application creating logfiles in a structure like this:
maillog/
2012-07-02/
production_environment-2012-07-02__23_51_50-1341265910-some name.log
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logrotate not rotates my logs
my logrotate works perfectly, except for this configuration:
/var/awdata/awarchive.*.log
/var/log/awstats.log
{
rotate 12
}
this is my logrotate -d /etc/logorate.conf
considering log ...
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Advice on apache log files
I have a small VPS that a friend and I use to host a few websites. We are both relatively inexperienced with server management and are unsure of an effective way to deal with the logs that Apache ...
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Free-space driven log rotation on linux?
Someone just asked me 'how long should we keep logs for our application', and my answer was 'until the disk is full' as there's no reason to throw them away other than running out of space.
However, ...
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Apache Log Rotation
Is there any mod or program for Apache Httpd which rotate logs as well as purge them without the restarting of server processes? I have checked a few options, mod_autorotate, rotatelogs, ...
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Equivalent of logrotate on OSX
Is logrotate hiding somewhere on OSX, or is there an equivalent? It's not in /usr/sbin.
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Can postgres internal log rotation mechanism delete log files older than a certain time?
I am using posgtres' internal log rotation mechanism. I would like log files older than 30 days to be deleted. How do I get postgres to do this? If postgres does not support it, can I set logrotate to ...
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apache access.log to keep only records from last 3 monthes
I need Apache accesslog file to be parsed fast in realtime and always to keep only last 3 months data.
So I need tool which everyday cutting old records(and moving them to another file) from log file ...
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Understanding reference to /var/log/wtmp in /etc/logrotate.conf
I have the following lines in my /etc/logrotate.conf file which I'm not quite sure what they do:
(Edited in to show full file)
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# ...
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Preventing logrotate's dateext from overwriting files
I'm working with a system where I would like to use the dateext function of logrotate (or some other way) to add the date to a logfile when it is rotated. However in this system it is important that ...
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1answer
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Determine root cause of broken pipe on Linux?
I have a webapp running on some servers that have their Apache log files on an OCFS2 SAN volume. The internal webapp logging is done using log4perl, in pipe mode, with cronolog on the other end of ...
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Benefits of log rotation
I have been using logrotation for years and never thought too much of it being a problem until I came across a question on stackoverflow ...
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Can Apache be configured to write to access.log or error.log with a different extension?
One of the things that I am investigating is using the dateext option for logrotate. However if I understood things correctly apache will keep writing to the files access.log and error.log.
I was ...
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logrotate does not compress /var/log/messages
Over time I noticed some logs in /var/log such as auth, kern and messages were getting huge. I made logrotate entries for them:
$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/auth.log
/var/log/kern.log {
rotate 5
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1answer
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How do you rotate apache logs on windows without interrupting service?
I administrate a Windows Server 2003 (Standard Edition, 32-bit) installation running Apache2 and ColdFusion. The server has over 100 virtual hosts, each with an access log and an error log. I've been ...
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Proper way to rotate Nginx logs
I would like to achieve rotation of nginx logs that:
would work without any extra software (i.e. - best if without "logrotate")
would create rotated files with names based on date
Best approach is ...
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NginX Log Rotation
I am serving a couple different domains through NginX on the same server and they each log to their own file. I need to set up a script to rotate, and compress these files and add it to cron.
I ...
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