- 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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