Re: Automatic Clearing of Logical Logs

Foo Chin wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to donate this script for the automatic clearing of logical > logs for IDS on solaris using a cron job. [SNIP] You realize, of course, that if your logical log archive device is a tape drive, or even a file, that you are overwriting your previous archive with each ontape -a command, assuming that there are any logs to backup, and certainly with each cron execution. If your log archive device is /dev/null then this is not needed as the logs clear themselves. If you do not want to keep the log archives just set the LTAPEDEV to /dev/null and be done with it. For a working method of saving log files automatically, without requiring a dedicated tape drive and terminal, see my post to the IIUG Software Repository named utils3_ak for an ALARMPROGRAM that does this (actually two, a rudimentary shell script based on the Informix log_full.sh but using ontape rather than onbar and a more comprehensive C executable). Art S. Kagel