nixCraft

Hi All,

Good day,

we have few RHEL 3/4 servers and whose disk space always be 100% (/opt) and we need to manually delete some logs to free up space. we now decided to write up some shell script to automate the works. The requirement was given by my lead to start the work. I am not good at shell script so though of asking you guys for help. here is the requirement,

/opt/jboss-4.2.1/server/bos/log/BOS-APP-SERV1_bos-server.log.2009-02-20-16

Example (using sym link) would be:

Source path: /opt/jboss/server/bos/log
Source template : [hostname]_bos-server.log.*


1) Check hourly for files in <destination-path><destination-file-template><destination-file-suffix> for files older than <destination-file-retention> days and purge. It should then check <source-path><source-file-template> for files older than <source-file-retention> and compress them based on <tar-flag> or <gzip-flag> or both. The compressed files should be in <destination-path><destination-file-template><destination-file-suffix>.



2) Provide variable parameters for the following, clearly commented, at the top of the script

Source-path # Source location for files matching source file template
Source-file-template # File name template
Source-file-retention # Files older than (hours) will be processed
Destination-path # Destination may be same or different than the Source path
Destination-file-suffix # None or specified)
Destination-file-template # Could equal source file template or be a combination of source plus suffix
Destination file retention (days) # Files older than this are deleted (usally 3 days old)
Tar flag # If true or y then use tar
Gzip flag # If true or y then use gzip (may both be set for tar and gzip)

Please help us on this.

Thanks

Question is: do you want to be? I mean, you're good at copying requirements verbatim (do services in general like it to get their logs rotated from under them w/o some form of -HUP?) but you haven't shown any (pseudo) code one could help you improve?..

Question is: do you want to be?

no, i will try to write a script myself and update it here if required any help. I think this is the way it works.

Thanks