delete old logfiles

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of richard lucassen
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:35 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] delete old logfiles
> 
> Debian Sarge nagios-txt 1.3
> 
> 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.

--
Marc 


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