severity #877148 wishlist
tags #877148 upstream
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:46:51AM +0000, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> currently the number of log files preserved in /var/log/atop is 28, hardcoded
> in atop.daily. There should be a way to change this number, so we could keep
> more or less files.
Can you try this patch for atop.daily? if it works, I'll submit this
upstream.
diff --git a/atop.daily b/atop.daily
index 32a94d8..8afb485 100755
--- a/atop.daily
+++ b/atop.daily
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ CURDAY=`date +%Y%m%d`
LOGPATH=/var/log/atop
BINPATH=/usr/bin
PIDFILE=/var/run/atop.pid
-INTERVAL=600 # interval 10 minutes
+INTERVAL=${INTERVAL:-600} # interval 10 minutes
+DAYS=${DAYS:-28}
# verify if atop still runs for daily logging
#
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ fi
# start a child shell that activates another child shell in
# the background to avoid a zombie
#
-( (sleep 3; find $LOGPATH -name 'atop_*' -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;)& )
+( (sleep 3; find $LOGPATH -name 'atop_*' -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm {} \;)& )
# activate atop with interval of 10 minutes, replacing the current shell
#
This will allow you to override INTERVAL and DAYS from the environment,
so you can put the desired value in your crontab.
Greetings
Marc
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