Log rotation daemons (e.g. logadm) versus Custom bash scripts?
- by victorhooi
Hi,
We have a number of applications that generate fairly large (500Mb a day) logfiles that we need to archive/compress on a daily basis.
Currently, the log rotation/moving/compressions is done either via custom bash scripts and scheduled via Cron, or in the application's code itself.
What (if any) are the advantages of using a system daemon like logadm? (These are Solaris boxes).
Cheers,
Victor