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 thanks, chris On 6/13/05, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
Only if the file is reopened, e.g. it has not been written within time_reap() seconds.
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:04 -0500, sawall wrote:
I have one line in my syslog-ng.conf file, as follows:
destination netops { file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST" remove_if_older(604800) owner(root) group (root) perm(0644) dir_perm(0700)); };
I'm running version 1.6.7 on Fedora Core 2. I would like to have the files that hit this destination be deleted every 7 days. It does not appear to be working as the files keep growing.
Maybe I misunderstood, but this should let the file grow for n seconds, then delete the file and start writing to a new file with the same name, right?
I tried setting this to 60 and that made no difference.
-- Bazsi