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To: Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Definitive logrotate solution? 
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Comments: In-reply-to Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:51:24 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com> writes:
> How do you ensure you're not keeping logs from 35+ days ago, or whatever?
> Just a find -mtime +10 -exec rm {}\; kind of thing?

Well, that depends on what you want to do.  I like to choose the log file
names so that they'll automatically be reused once a week or month.

			regards, tom lane