[NTLUG:Discuss] Script question

[Fred James]

Don't get me wrong - that is a very interesting little gizmo, and one 
which I may find very useful, too.

The credit lines at the end of the man page read: "Author, Erik Troan 
<ewt at redhat.com>" - I haven't found logrotate on any of the other UNIXs 
I work with, is it on distributions of Linux other than Red Hat?


sysmail at glade.net wrote:

> Wouldn't logrotate do all this a lot easier?
> 
> Just a thought,
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:40:18 -0600
>>From: Paul Ingendorf <pauldy at wantek.net>
>>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Script question
>>
>>hmm shell scripts yum gotta throw in how I would do it even though I see a few fine examples have already been posted.
>>The following would also move the files appropriately.  Just copy and paste this in a file chmod +x it and remember to create the new backup file as /archive/domains.`date +%Y-%m-%d` and it should work properly every time.
>>
>>#!/bin/bash
>>rm -f /archive/*.3
>>let x=3
>>for file in /archive/domains.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9].[0-3]
>>	do
>>		mv $file /archive/`echo $file | sed -e "s/\.[0-9]^//g"`.$x
>>		let x=$x-1
>>	done
>>mv /archive/domains.`date +%Y-%m-%d` /archive/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.0
>>
>>
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