[syslog-ng] logrotate again...

[Vadim Pushkin]

Well, this did not work, but it was sucessful at wiping out the entire 
contents of the file altogether :-(

Regards,

.vp

>From: "Justin Randall" <jrandall at comwave.net>

>Slight correction on the command syntax:
>
> > find /var/log -type f -exec sed -if <sed script filename> {} \;
>
>Should be
>
>find /var/log -type f -exec sed -f <sed script filename> --in-place {}
>\;
>
>Cheers.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Justin Randall
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:21 AM
>To: 'Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list'
>Subject: RE: [syslog-ng] logrotate again...
>
> >find /var/log -type f -exec sed -i '/15 Nov/d'  {} \; should work - is
>untested, though :)
>
>If I'm not mistaken this will only remove lines containing '15 Nov'.  If
>you want something that will eliminate all logs prior to that date you
>could write a sed script like the following:
>
>= begin sed script =
>/./,/15 Nov/{
>d
>}
>= end sed script =
>
>If you had another date range in mind you could also do the following:
>
>= begin sed script =
>/13 Nov/,/15 Nov/{
>d
>}
>= end sed script =
>
>Once you have your sed script simply invoke it similar to the above
>method:
>
>find /var/log -type f -exec sed -if <sed script filename> {} \;
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Justin.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrej Ricnik-Bay [mailto:andrej.groups at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:44 PM
>To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
>Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] logrotate again...
>
>On 12/6/06, Vadim Pushkin <wiskbroom at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2. The other issue that I am having is that I wish to rotate now, my
> > filesystem is fill, but since I did not rotate, all of my logfiles are
>one.
> > How can I prune them of any data prior to say 15 Nov for *each*
>logfile?
>find /var/log -type f -exec sed -i '/15 Nov/d'  {} \;
>should work - is untested, though :)
>
>
> >  Thank you again,
> >
> > .vp
>Cheers