www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/cfengine/cfengine-Tutorial_59.html

search

	Buy GNU books!

GNU cfengine

4.11 Compressing old log files

In the previous two sections we have looked at how to rotate old log files and how to execute shell commands. If you keep a lot of old log files around on your system, you might want to compress them so that they don't take up so much space. You can do this with a shell command. The example below looks for files matching a shell wildcard. Names of the form `file.1', `file.2'...`file.10' will match this wildcard and the compression program sees that they get compressed. The output is dumped to avoid spurious messages.

shellcommands: "$(gnu)/gzip /var/log/*.[0-9] /var/log/*.[0-9][0-9] > /dev/null 2>&1"

Cfagent will also recognize rotated files if they have been compressed, with suffixes `.Z', `.gz', `.rbz' or `.rbz'.