Jody Burnett wrote:
> I have sshd running and would like to setup rotation for these
> logs....I have syslog-ng writing to the messages log. Can anyone
> point me to a program like logrotate for cygwin or is there a cygwin
> package? I have cron running so if there is a bash or perl script I
> can run that would be great. I have searched for a simple script to
> do this but cannot find an answer.
I'm using rotatelog version 1.7, the only changes I made to the provided
Makefile are:
--- Projects/rotatelog-1.7/Makefile~ 2001-05-27 13:38:54.000000000 -0500
+++ Projects/rotatelog-1.7/Makefile 2006-04-04 13:30:50.890625000 -0500
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
PREFIX=/usr/local
CONF=/usr/local/etc
-SHELL=/bin/sh
+SHELL=/bin/bash
-install:
+install : FORCE
mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/sbin
cp rotatelog ${PREFIX}/sbin
- chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
+# chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
chmod 0700 ${PREFIX}/sbin/rotatelog
mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/man/man1
cp rotatelog.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
- chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
+# chown root:bin ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
chmod 0444 ${PREFIX}/man/man1/rotatelog.1
@if [ -f ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ] ;\
then \
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
else \
mkdir -p ${CONF} ;\
cp rotatelog.conf ${CONF} ;\
- chown root:bin ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ;\
chmod 0644 ${CONF}/rotatelog.conf ;\
echo "Copied example rotatelog.conf to ${CONF}." ;\
fi
+
+FORCE :
Logrotate should also work, I didn't try on Cygwin but I use it on
Linux, rotate log is just simple and does the job fine.
--
René Berber
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