delete old logfiles

[richard lucassen]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:25:07 -0600
"Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com> wrote:

> > The log are rotated daily, but older logs are still kept in the
> > "archives" directory. Is there a Nagios-way to get rid of old
> > logfiles other than a daily cronjob starting
> > 
> > find /var/log/nagios/archives/ -mtime +${LOG_MAX_DAYS} -exec rm -f
> > {}
> \;
> > 
> > to delete these older logfiles?
> 
> No, there isn't. Be aware that all of Nagios' historical data is
> maintained in those log files so you would be removing the information
> used to generate many of the reports. Reports will still run but will
> only include information in existing log files.

Of course, but what happens if nagios is running for a few months
checking hundreds of sites? Nagios will sooner or later fill up your
'/var' partition. That's not a very good idea IMHO ;-)

R.

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