HI ALL

I have defined logrotation for IBM HTTP Server in daily basis. the access.log and error.log are rotating everyday.


But I want to keep only 30 historical logs without deleting like we have option in websphere.

will it possible in IBM HTTP Server?

Thank you

Simple solution is to use the following in a cron job

This will delete log files older than 7 days/ not modified in 7days from the specified directory
find /Apache_logs_location -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v '{}' \;

Thanks Joseph

But my environment is in windows. Is there any way please let me know. Thank you

joseph where should we want to execute this command under apache bin or other lcation find /Apache_logs_location -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v '{}' \;

find /Apache_logs_location -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v '{}' \;
Its a unix command  you can run from any directory in Unix/linux OS.

But apache_logs_location is where your IBM HTTP Server installed

example

find /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/logs -type -f -mtime+7 -exec rm -v'{}' \;

Thanks

hai i am facing this error
[root@localhost ~]# find /home/IBMIHS/logs -type -f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v'{}' \;
find: Arguments to -type should contain only one letter
[root@localhost ~]#

its my typo mistake.

try the below cmd once

find /home/IBMIHS/logs -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v '{}' \;


Thanks

Hi, 

   Windows isn't too bad nowadays all the scripts you have for *nix you can get for Windows too.


  Create bat file and schedule in Windows Task Scheduler.
 
  To see what files are going to be deleted you can use echo.

  forfiles -p "C:\what\ever" -s -m *.* -d -NUMBER_OF_DAYS -c "cmd /c echo @file"
 
  Then delete....

  forfiles -p "C:\what\ever" -s -m *.* -d -NUMBER_OF_DAYS -c "cmd /c del @path"

   In Win7

  forfiles -p "C:\what\ever" -s -m *.* /D -NUMBER_OF_DAYS /C "cmd /c del @path"

  Source
   stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-...

  Hope this helps.

Regards

thank you adminuppala,joseph the command you posted is working correctly.

can we increase the size of error.log file and access.log file which is under IHS/logs using a command every at night 8pm.

Sure saravana, but you need to restart the IHS.

Do and script to change the values in http.conf and restart the server. Put the script in crontab and you have it.

Regards

Hai Gabriel "my question is can we increase size of error.log file and access.log file using command if possible can you send the command"

Saravana

  There is no command of IHS, it need to be a operating system command (shell command).

  I guess you are using rotatelogs, if not, you can't stablish size of the logs in IHS.
 
  After the change you need to restart IHS so you need an script to change the value and then restart the IHS.
 
  I haven't the commmand but there are a lot of examples (google) to change value(word) in a file (httpd.conf)
 
regards

Thank you veryu much Gabriel.

Summery of this thread

List and Delete

Unix/Linux
List files that are older than 'n' days

find path_to_logs_directory -type f -mtime +n -exec ls -l '{}' \;

delete files that are older than 'n' days

find path_to_logs_directory -type f -mtime +n -exec rm -v '{}' \;

Windows
List files that are older than 'n' days

forfiles -p "path_to_logs_directory" -s -m *.* -d -n -c "cmd /c echo @file"

delete files that are older than 'n' days

forfiles -p "path_to_logs_directory" -s -m *.* -d -n -c "cmd /c del @path"

Scheduling cleaning jobs
- Unix/Linux
you can use 'crontab' to schedule the above commands to run everyday/week etc... Check the following link for CRONTAB (websphereapplicationservernotes.wordpres...)

-Windows
Put the above delete command in a batch file (.bat)
Create windws job/tasks to run the batch file