Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp log maintenance
Keywords: uucp log logs maintenance
Message-ID: <866@becker.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 17:03:30 GMT
References: <523@sud509.RAY.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <523@sud509.RAY.COM> news@sud509.RAY.COM (Usenet News Account) writes:
|What do System Administrators usually do to maintain the logfile(s)
|generated by uucp?  We are set up to poll one system periodically, 
|and the logfile for that system is getting to the point where it's
|not convenient to read.  I tried editing it once, but it seemed to
|cause it to get garbled--so I ended up trashing it and starting a
|new one.
|
|Is there any special procedure usually followed to maintain these
|logs (the ones shown by 'uulog')?  Are there any programs/scripts
|out there that can be used to summarize the log activity?
|
|The system in question is a Harris Nighthawk 3802, running 
|System V.3.

	I think if you're using System V unix that you
	should have a "uudemon.cleanup" script in /usr/lib/uucp
	which is run from "cron" nightly. It should be combining
	the daily uucp logs in to a single file in
	/usr/spool/uucp/.Old, and archiving 1 or more
	previous such combined logs. If it's not there,
	your unix might have been ported oddly, or it
	might have been decommissioned for some admin
	reason...

	Some of the PD scripts around will give a uucp/mail/news
	summary of activity, - they give the per-site byte
	counts of data sent/received for uucp, & similar data
	for news & mail.

Cheers,
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