Re: log rotation

[René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>]

Jody Burnett wrote:

> I have sshd running and would like to setup rotation for these
> logs....I have syslog-ng writing to the messages log. Can anyone
> point me to a program like logrotate for cygwin or is there a cygwin
> package? I have cron running so if there is a bash or perl script I
> can run that would be great. I have searched for a simple script to
> do this but cannot find an answer.

I'm using rotatelog version 1.7, the only changes I made to the provided
Makefile are:

--- Projects/rotatelog-1.7/Makefile~    2001-05-27 13:38:54.000000000 -0500
+++ Projects/rotatelog-1.7/Makefile     2006-04-04 13:30:50.890625000 -0500
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 PREFIX=/usr/local
 CONF=/usr/local/etc
-SHELL=/bin/sh
+SHELL=/bin/bash

-install:
+install : FORCE
        mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/sbin
        cp rotatelog ${PREFIX}/sbin
-       chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
+#      chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
        chmod 0700 ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
        mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/man/man1
        cp rotatelog.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
-       chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
+#      chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
        chmod 0444 ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
        @if [ -f ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ] ;\
        then \
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
        else \
                mkdir -p ${CONF} ;\
                cp rotatelog.conf ${CONF} ;\
-               chown root:bin ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ;\
                chmod 0644 ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ;\
                echo "Copied example rotatelog.conf to ${CONF}." ;\
        fi
+
+FORCE :

Logrotate should also work, I didn't try on Cygwin but I use it on
Linux, rotate log is just simple and does the job fine.
-- 
René Berber


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