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Log file cleaning script that deletes old files and logrotate files

https://github.com/sixarm/log-file-cleaning

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log logrotate script shell sysadmin
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Log file cleaning script that deletes old files and logrotate files

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  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: SixArm
  • Language: Shell
  • Default Branch: main
  • Size: 6.84 KB
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log logrotate script shell sysadmin
Created over 9 years ago · Last pushed 9 months ago
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README.md

Log file cleaning script

This script deletes typical old log files, logrotate files, and similar log backups.

Please be certain you don't need these log files before you run this.

Syntax:

log-file-cleaning [path]

Example:

log-file-cleaning /var/log

The path default is /var/log which is typical on popular Unix systems.

You can customize the command by providing your own rm command as an environment variable.

Example:

rm="/bin/rm" log-file-cleaning

Specifics

This removes many kinds of log files.

File names that end with:

  • .bz2
  • .gz
  • .old
  • .bak
  • .backup
  • .log.[0-9]*
  • .[0-9]*.log

File names that match:

  • btmp.[0-9]*
  • dmesg.[0-9]*
  • mail.err.[0-9]*
  • syslog.[0-9]*
  • wtmp.[0-9]*
  • xferlog.[0-9]*

Any atop files.

  • atop/atop_[0-9]*

Any Mac OSX Apple System Log files:

  • asl/*.asl
  • DiagnosticMessages/*.asl

Implementation notes

This script aims to work even when a disk is full or commands are missing. For example, this scripts starts by deleting files one name by one name, rather than relying on more-sophisticated file globbing or using find.

This script source code aims to be descriptive and meaningful, so a systems administrator can easily comment out lines as needed, or add new lines easily without affecting any other lines.

If you are a developer who is creating a patch or pull request, please keep this code pattern, rather than trying to introduce features such as more globbing, loops, non-POSIX commands, etc.

Tracking

  • Command: log-file-cleaning
  • Version: 3.0.0
  • Created: 2012-12-09
  • Updated: 2016-08-27
  • Contact: Joel Parker Henderson (joel@joelparkerhenderson.com)
  • License: GPL

Owner

  • Name: SixArm
  • Login: SixArm
  • Kind: organization
  • Email: sixarm@sixarm.com
  • Location: San Francisco

SixArm Software

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title: Log file cleaning script
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authors:
  - given-names: Joel Parker
    family-names: Henderson
    email: joel@joelparkerhenderson.com
    affiliation: joelparkerhenderson.com
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4681-282X'
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    value: 'https://github.com/SixArm/log-file-cleaning/'
    description: Log file cleaning script
repository-code: 'https://github.com/SixArm/log-file-cleaning/'
abstract: >-
  Log file cleaning script
license: See license file

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