Does anyone have a good script to move log files from a cron?
There are a lot of logs, about 100 or more and they are constantly
being written too.
The better way is to use syslog for that.
Do you not have a logrotate command?
it turns out the problem is a little more serious.
df -h
/ is 51G used
/proc is 0k
du -shd /
/ is 38G used
du -shd /proc
/proc is 18G
because this is a zone on the root file system, I think
there is something in another zone or global zone that
is causing file system to grow but I can't find it.
Only suspicious directory is proc.
Does anyone know how to find the culprit or solution here?
/proc does not take up any space; it is a virtual file system only.
Do you have a logrotate command?
which logrotate says no.
There are three kinds of logs.
1.) Logs that do not end.
application1.log
application2.log
I am planning to copy these to backup drive as follows:
cp application1.log /backup/application1.log
cp /dev/null applications1.log
2.) some logs that when they hit 50M create 7 files.
file.log
file.log.0
file.log.1
...etc...
file.log.7
I wont really be doing anything here as it seems these logs
are under control.
3.) others create daily logs such as:
file.2008-10-01.log
file.2008-10-02.log
I created a perl script to move all these files to backup drive when
older that three days.
However, I still can't find the extra 11-12G that df shows and du does not.
du and df measure different things. They will not show the same numbers.
I was able to use the information from this thread.
here
I went to global zone and ran this.
du -akd / | sort -nr > du.out
awk '/\/logs$/' du.out > tmp.out
tmp.out gave me a nice list of all logs from biggest to smallest on root
slice. I did this with core files too and it worked great. Some where on
global zone others where on zones in root.