some people managed to get on the moon, i managed to limit log files to x lines. monthly.
both processes were complicated.
one would expect tail to do the job.
but tail -n 100 filename.log > filename.log
would write “” (nothing) into filename.log if filename.log has less than 100 lines.
the trick is to write to a new file, than move new to old file.
# test run, it will not output anything test -x /usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron-apt # how to truncate shrink log files mkdir /scripts echo "#! /bin/sh FILENAME=$1; MAXLINES=$2; tail -n $MAXLINES $FILENAME > $FILENAME'_new'; mv $FILENAME'_new' $FILENAME;" > /scripts/shrinklog.sh chmod 755 /scripts/shrinklog.sh # shrink log to 100 lines /scripts/shrinklog.sh /usr/sbin/cron-apt 100; # check what it did cat /var/log/cron-apt/log
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