NAME¶

qsrotate - Log rotation tool (similar to Apache's rotatelogs).

SYNOPSIS¶

qsrotate -o <file> [-s <sec>] [-f] [-z] [-g <num>] [-u <name>] [-p]

DESCRIPTION¶

qsrotate reads from stdin (piped log) and writes the data to the provided file rotating the file after the specified time.

OPTIONS¶

-o <file>

Output log file to write the data to.

-s <sec>

Rotation interval in seconds, default are 86400 seconds.

-f

Forced log rotation even no data is written.

-z

Compress (gzip) the rotated file.

-g <num>

Generations (number of files to keep).

-u <name>

Become another user, e.g. www-data.

-p

Writes data also to stdout (for piped logging).

EXAMPLE¶

TransferLog "|qsrotate -f -z -g 3 -o /dest/file -s 86400" The name of the rotated file will be /dest/filee.YYYYmmddHHMMSS where YYYYmmddHHMMSS is the system time at which the data has been rotated.

NOTE¶

Each qsrotate instance must use an individual file!

SEE ALSO¶

qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qspng(1), qssign(1), qstail(1)

AUTHOR¶

Pascal Buchbinder, http://opensource.adnovum.ch/mod_qos/