We all know how annoying it can get to have old log files that are not really being used on our production server. Hence, it would be great to implement a script to perform the task on a cronjob so that we can relax as lazy system engineers 🙂 🙂
The script to delete files older than 15 days would be as follows:
#!/bin/bash
# File is saved as root, in /scripts/delete_old_logs.sh
# File needs to be chmod 777 to work
DAYS=15
PATH_TO_LOGS=/var/log
find $PATH_TO_LOGS -type f -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm -rf {} ;
Next, we can schedule it to run on a daily basis, every 11pm:
crontab -e
add this line
* 23 * * * /scripts/delete_old_logs.sh
