On Tue, 8 May 2001 13:37:49 -0600, Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I don't suppose the concept of circular files comes to posix :) > >Maybe an enhancement is in order for rolling logfiles that change on a >weekly/monthly/size=xxxx >basis as some Windows apps do, and of couse MPE! Actually, on (L)inux systems there is a "cron" task known as "logrotate". The task script calls a program of the same name passing a log filename as a parameter, the program in turn purges the "oldest" rotated logfile & renames the current/prior (rotated) files [up to 4, generally] as logfile.1, logfile.2, etc. This would give you the daily/weekly/monthly log rotation, but not neccessarilly the "on size>=xxxx" rotation. Tom * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *