updated present script to 0.3-dev

[scripts/scripts.git] / logrotate.sh

diff --git a/logrotate.sh b/logrotate.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/logrotate.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# rotate the messages file if >= 4M
+
+if [ -f /var/log/messages ] ; then
+mess_size=`du -h /var/log/messages | sed 's/\/var\/log\/messages//' | sed 's/.*k/0/' | awk -F. '{ print $1 }'`
+if [ "$mess_size" -gt "3" ] ; then
+       d_stamp=`date | awk '{ print $3 "-" $2 "-" $6 }'`
+       mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages-${d_stamp}
+       gzip /var/log/messages-${d_stamp}
+       echo "rotated /var/log/messages file."
+fi
+fi
+
+if [ ! -f /var/log/messages ] ; then
+        touch /var/log/messages
+        echo "touched new /var/log/messages file."
+       /etc/init.d/syslogd restart
+fi
+