Rotating freeradius log

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:49+0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to use newsyslog to rotate freeradius accounting logs?
> 
> Freeradius creates accounting logs of the form
> /var/log/radacct/IP-ADDRESS/reply-detail-DATE and
> /var/log/radacct/IP-ADDRESS/auth-detail-DATE
> 
> Is there a way to configure newsyslog to remove the files that are older
> than X days?
> 
> /var/log/radacct/*/* is not working in /etc/newsyslog.conf

How about creating an entry in /etc/crontab, executing:

/usr/bin/find /var/log/radacct -mtime 7d -delete

The example above deletes everything older than 7 days. See find(1) 
for more information, the documentation for the -mtime option refers 
to the documentation for -atime option.

We can refine the example to only cover (ordinary) files:

/usr/bin/find /var/log/radacct -type f -mtime 7d -delete

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