syslog truncate

[Sinisa]

Hi,

I am interested if it is safe to truncate syslog (it contains data for last
3 years since the server was installed and it is over 23Mb).
Is it safe to truncate portion of it (lets say to leave only messages for
current year) ?
How should I do it ? (what commands).
System is SCO OpenServer 5.0.6

Thanks

[Stuart J. Browne]

"Sinisa" <vojvodics@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:GGjWa.48722$rsJ.46378@news04.bloor.is.net.cab le.rogers.com...

> Hi,
>
> I am interested if it is safe to truncate syslog (it contains data for

last

> 3 years since the server was installed and it is over 23Mb).
> Is it safe to truncate portion of it (lets say to leave only messages for
> current year) ?
> How should I do it ? (what commands).
> System is SCO OpenServer 5.0.6

we rotate the file once a month. Move it out of the way, touch a new one,
kill -HUP syslog's process.

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Sinisa typed (on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:49:26AM +0000):
|
| I am interested if it is safe to truncate syslog (it contains data for last
| 3 years since the server was installed and it is over 23Mb).
| Is it safe to truncate portion of it (lets say to leave only messages for
| current year) ?
| How should I do it ? (what commands).
| System is SCO OpenServer 5.0.6

I use prune to truncate growing ascii log files, from the top and at a
newline. Get it from ftp.jpr.com.

--
JP

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <20030801032622.GF23529@jpradley.jpr.com>,
Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:

>Sinisa typed (on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:49:26AM +0000):

>| I am interested if it is safe to truncate syslog (it contains
>| data for last 3 years since the server was installed and it is
>| over 23Mb). Is it safe to truncate portion of it (lets say to
>| leave only messages for current year) ?

>| How should I do it ? (what commands). System is SCO OpenServer
>| 5.0.6

>I use prune to truncate growing ascii log files, from the top and at a
>newline. Get it from ftp.jpr.com.

I think it would be nice is the SCO products could use something
like 'newsyslog'. I've been spoiled by it in the FBSD servers I
maintain.

It's originally from MIT and project Athena and looking at the
copyrights it is wide open for anyone to use for any purpose
as long as the copyright info is maintained. Very similar to the
BSD style.

A config file lets you rotate your files based on size, time,
day, week, month, etc. It has flags to process the processed
files - so they can be rotated, compressed, and how many copies of
the old files to be retained.

Bill
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com