From: "Steven Levine" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <68edda66.17.mr2ice.fgrirsq@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:06:46 -0800
To: "eCS ISP Mailing List" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-14421040@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [eCS-ISP] script to rotate logs, old mails etc. and create a dated zip

In <list-14421040@2rosenthals.com>, on 10/12/25
   at 10:30 PM, "Ian Manners" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com> said:

Hi all,

>> thanks, but i guess this script can't help me

What makes you say this?  Have you tried to edit the script as suggested?

>It will, you simply have to modify it to your needs.

I agree.  As written, the script or a modified version will handle any log
file that is closed when the script runs.

There's a small window of time when the script will fail bacause because
weasel is appending weasel.$$$ to weasel.log.  A bit of error checking and
a retry should handle this.

Currently, the script is not capable of moving apache logs which are kept
open.

This requires a script that knows how to shut down and restart apache so
that the move can succeed.

>I use the same script to archive *.log files for both weasel and 
>FTPServer, then delete the logs after. All you need to do is change
>.'log'  to .'msg', the date part is already in the script, and becomes
>part of the  archived filename.

I suspect Massimo wants to run the script for multiple .msg files.  This
will require simple modifications to the script so that the script does a
SysFileTree collect the names of the files to rename and wraps the rename
and move logic in a do loop.

Steven

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