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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: logfile management program needed ...
Keywords: logfile
Message-ID: <1991May17.020723.27608@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 17 May 91 02:07:23 GMT
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In article <100@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>I'm looking for a program that can be used to trim (regularly)
>logfiles such as /usr/adm/sulog and /usr/spool/smail/log/logfile,
>and the such that accumalte frequently ... yet retain the last
>few entries while deleting the rest...
>
>I've heard about a program like this somewhere, but haven't been
>able to find it.

I use  'prune', which came out on the net in 1985. It deals with ASCII files
only, but will chop them using a list of files-newsizes in /etc/default/prune.

The whole source code is barely 4K of ASCII, so I'll mail it to anyone who
asks.

Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341