- Bill Pennington’s Logfile Rotation Script
- LogController: A logfile size management tool. Configuration options include logfiles to monitor, maximum allowable size, and whether old files should be compressed and stored, or erased.
- Logfile::Rotate
- logrotate
- newsyslog -- Russ Allbery's version
- newsyslog -- Portable to any version of UNIX, this is a highly enhanced version of Ted Ts'o's original log rotation program. Contact Greg Woods for more information.
- System Log Rotation Service (SLRS): a Solaris tool that rotates syslog files as well as other Solaris-specific system logs. Contact James Finegan for information.
- spinlogs: A portable script similar to BSD's newsyslog.
- Trimlog: A utility that prevents logfiles from growing without bounds. Configuration options include files to monitor, mechanism for trimming, and amount by which to trim.
- watchlog: A daemon that rotates backlogs daily, weekly, monthly or when a maximum file size is reached. It will wake up once or more a day and check if any logs need processing.
- Bzip2: A fast high-compression tool - useful for large log files.
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