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I can answer 2 fairly simply. Whilst using syslog-ng, I just set the logs to go into a dated directory or filename, that way they automatically get rotated each night without disrupting syslog at all. For example:

destination messages {
   file("/var/log/syslog-dated/$HOST/$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY/messages"
         sync(0) log_fifo_size(10) create_dirs(yes)
         owner(root) group(sysadmin) perm(0640) dir_perm(0750)
         dir_owner(root) dir_group(sysadmin));
};

You could of course simplify this even more, and just have:

destination messages {
file("/var/adm/messages-$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY"

         sync(0) log_fifo_size(10) create_dirs(yes)
         owner(root) group(sysadmin) perm(0640) dir_perm(0750)
         dir_owner(root) dir_group(sysadmin));
};

Which would put dated messages files into your /var/adm directory, then run a find command each night to clean up the old logs once they're archived off to tape or whatever your policy is.

I personally use these 2 cron entries to clean up my messages each night:

15 4 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/log/syslog-dated $ -name '*-*-*' $ -follow -mount -mtime +32 -type d -exec /usr/bin/rm -rf {} \;
30 4 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/log/syslog-dated $ -name '*.log' $ -follow -mount -mtime +2 -type f -exec /usr/bin/gzip {} \;

This gzips the older logs, and deletes stuff over a month old.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keven Belanger [mailto:kbelanger@logicon.ca]
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2002 5:23 AM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng]help please...

I have 2 question:

1- I'm looking for a script (perl or other) to scan a file to find unique line (line that are duplicate will be remove)

2- Also want to know which log rotation people are using under Solaris ??

Answer soon!

Thanx!

Kéven Belanger

Analyste en solutions de sécurité
Logicon Inc. - Division Sécurité
819.825.8049 x7717

800.567.6399 x7717

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