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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

How to put log rotate in aix?



How to put log rotate in aix?


To rotate the file you should append 'rotate size files part to the above entry similar to the following entry in your /etc/syslog.conf

*.info;mark.none      /var/adm/syslog rotate size 32m files 8 compress

once done that please "refresh -s syslogd"

Output similar to below.

ls -l /var/adm/syslog*
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     19718076 08 Apr 09.34      /var/adm/syslog
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2728076 07 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.0.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2608076 07 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.1.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2688076 07 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.2.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2528076 06 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.3.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2378076 06 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.4.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2898076 06 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.5.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2678076 06 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.6.Z
-rw-rw-r--      1 adm adm     2888076 06 Apr 09.34        /var/adm/syslog.7.Z

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