qsrotate (1) Linux Manual Page

qsrotate – a log rotation tool (similar to Apache’s rotatelogs).

Synopsis

qsrotate -o <file> [-s <sec> [-t <hours>]] [-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 (use an absolute path).

-s <sec>

Rotation interval in seconds, default are 86400 seconds.

-t <hours>

Offset to UTC (enables also DST support), default is 0.

-b <bytes>

File size limitation (default are 2147352576 bytes).

-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), qshead(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qspng(1), qssign(1), qstail(1)

Author

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