Clean logs

[AboveNBeyond]

Hello all,
So I just found out on one of my servers log rotate is not on...

How did I find out... lol 100% full / & /var.

So here is my question, isn't there a way to clean out entries past a certain amount of days? I'd like to shrink it up and then I will turn log rotate on

I need this asap! Please help if you know how before I just blow the entire log away.

Thanks.

[ynilesh]

You need to create a small script which will find 1 or more days before logs and zip them.
you can also add one more shell check which will delete very old logs.

hint :
- Use find -mtime option to find 1 or more days old files.
- Put script in cron and run as per your need.

If you need script let me know

[jledhead]

have you checked /etc/logrotate.conf or /etc/logrotate.d/?

logrotate should be able to handle this.

[anomie]

isn't there a way to clean out entries past a certain amount of days?

Just let logrotate do its job. There is likely no need to make this into two distinct operations.