Will you share the script?  Is it a PERL script?

Margaret J. Brandt
MMS/NEJM
Technology Projects Coordinator
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From: "Keller, Richard (CIT)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: listserv on nt starts new log daily - what about unix?


> We also have LISTSERV 1.8d on Solaris.  We have a script that rotates the
> listserv.logs at 3:00 am every morning.  It shuts down all of the LISTSERV
> processes, rotates the logs, and restarts LISTSERV.  We keep the logs for
34
> days.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Russell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: listserv on nt starts new log daily - what about unix?
>
>
> We are running LISTSERV 1.8d on Solaris and the listserv.log file just
keeps
> growing and growing until we stop the lsv process, rename the log file,
and
> restart the service. If there is a very large listserv.log file when
> LISTSERV
> is restarted, LISTSERV will sometimes rename the file to listserv.log.OLD
> and
> start a new listserv.log file.
>
> I am also running an evaluation copy of the NT version of LISTSERV, and it
> appears that LISTSERV on NT is automatically starting a new log each night
> at
> midnight, with the date reflected in the log file name. Are there any
plans
> to
> include this functionality in the unix versions of the product? I can
craft
> a
> homegrown solution, but not without modifying the go script, and even then
> it
> isn't foolproof.
>
> --
> Paul Russell
> Senior Systems Administrator
> University of Notre Dame
>