Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi
I need help to write a script for AIX which gives me the weekly log report and delete the one week old logs automatically.
Thanks.
A.O

Message was edited by: aogill
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Originally posted by: dhraj

Is it daily log files or will it create once in a week.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

It should generate daily log and delete the 7 days old record. Each day save the new log file and delete the 7 day old file.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello,
An easy way could be to generate the log in different directories for each day of the week. Filtering with the option "date +%A" to get the full name of week.
And before generate the log you should clean up the directory correspond to actual day.

Regards Leo.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I need a script that will generate daily log files, arrange and save them datewise and delete the 7 days old log file automatically.
All I have to do is to check these files after 1 week to generate the log file report.
Thanks
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Originally posted by: nh4aix

Syslog has the ability to do this already. Instead of writing your own, you could take advantage of syslog's ability to roll and manage logs..

See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.files/doc/aixfiles/syslog.conf.htm for info on how to configure syslog.conf to roll files..

You can use the "logger" command to log into syslog or you can use system calls to control and log (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/syslog.htm?resultof=%22%73%79%73%6c%6f%67%22%20)

Good luck.
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