news@sud509.RAY.COM (Usenet News Account) (09/12/89)
What do System Administrators usually do to maintain the logfile(s) generated by uucp? We are set up to poll one system periodically, and the logfile for that system is getting to the point where it's not convenient to read. I tried editing it once, but it seemed to cause it to get garbled--so I ended up trashing it and starting a new one. Is there any special procedure usually followed to maintain these logs (the ones shown by 'uulog')? Are there any programs/scripts out there that can be used to summarize the log activity? The system in question is a Harris Nighthawk 3802, running System V.3. Thanks in advance for any help on this. Bill Heiser heiser@sud509.ray.com rayssd!sud509!heiser
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (09/13/89)
In article <523@sud509.RAY.COM> news@sud509.RAY.COM (Usenet News Account) writes: |What do System Administrators usually do to maintain the logfile(s) |generated by uucp? We are set up to poll one system periodically, |and the logfile for that system is getting to the point where it's |not convenient to read. I tried editing it once, but it seemed to |cause it to get garbled--so I ended up trashing it and starting a |new one. | |Is there any special procedure usually followed to maintain these |logs (the ones shown by 'uulog')? Are there any programs/scripts |out there that can be used to summarize the log activity? | |The system in question is a Harris Nighthawk 3802, running |System V.3. I think if you're using System V unix that you should have a "uudemon.cleanup" script in /usr/lib/uucp which is run from "cron" nightly. It should be combining the daily uucp logs in to a single file in /usr/spool/uucp/.Old, and archiving 1 or more previous such combined logs. If it's not there, your unix might have been ported oddly, or it might have been decommissioned for some admin reason... Some of the PD scripts around will give a uucp/mail/news summary of activity, - they give the per-site byte counts of data sent/received for uucp, & similar data for news & mail. Cheers, -- \__/ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \@@/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/~/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _< \_ Happiness is a warm gnu, yes it is - R. M. Soulman