Re: (Fwd) Re: Informix Message Log

} } Ravi Joseph Pinto (ravi@in.DHL.COM) wrote: } : Hi, } } : I am not sure if the first posting made thru !!! Yes it did. } } : Ravi... } : On 30 Jul 96 , Richard Thomas <r.thomas@csl.gov.uk> wrote } } : } log is just one file, you don't even need tar - just move (mv) the } : } file, renaming it using the date command. } : } } : } eg } : } } : } #!/bin/sh } : } cd /online (subbstitute your own $INFORMIXDIR here) } : } mv online.log log_archive/`date '+%d-%m-%y'` } } : Shouldn't the OnLine be shutdown before moving the message file to } : archive area , keeping in mind that oninit / tbinit is constantly writing to } : the file ??? } } Well, oninit isn't "constantly" writing to this file. (Unless you've got } some serious problem going on.) The file gets opened, written to, and closed } each time a message is written. So the file shouldn't usually be open. } There is still the risk that the file will be being written to during your mv. Which is why I prefer: tdy=`date +"%Y%j"` cp $logfile $logfile.$tdy cat /dev/null > $logfile The file is never 'gone' that way. Sure an 'mv' to the same file system is going to take a millsecond - so it's probably never going to be an issue. Sure a 'cp' is slower. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to PLD/PE _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________