Logs management and deletion

[r1vver]

I have a question about logs management.
There is “logmanager setip” in Zeroshell gui where i can set remote syslog and auto logs management (auto-compress and auto-deletion of logs using threshold values).
But how i can make single (non automatic) deletion of all logs? Can it (deletion) be done manually (from cli)?

[netman]

If i were you, I would first try some “basic Linux” commands … like:
find . -name *.log from the “/” dir.
You need Shell Access via the Console or via SSH.

Then I would try to delete some of the logs and see the results …
Also If I were you, I wouldn’t do anything of the above with a ZS Box that is working with real traffic … try’m on a “test bed ZS box” 😉

But I’m not you … 😉

Ciao
Steve

[r1vver]

@netman wrote:

ZS Box that is working with real traffic

It’s my case.
The place where logs are stored is known to me, but I do not want to get “mad” ZS box after all rm manipulations.

[_dan]

@r1vver wrote:

But how i can make single (non automatic) deletion of all logs? Can it (deletion) be done manually (from cli)?

The answer is yes.
By default ZS keep current logs on

/Database/LOG/2011/May/30

Where

• Database – the mount point of _DB.001(user database)
• LOG – log directory
• 2011 -current year
• May – current month
• 30 – current day

A direct command to remove the logs for current day is

rm -R /Database/LOG/2011/May/30

Before you consider deleting the current logs you should backup(compressed) your logs.

cd /Database/LOG/2011/May/

tar cjf May30.tar.bz2 30

Just few basic examples, from here you can start learning about *nix basic commands and shell scripting for other options.

Success,

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