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Automatic purge compressed logs that are aged 7 days over
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gzed-log-purge.sh
#!/bin/bash
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# cron ex: 25 5 * * * /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /root/scripts/gzed-log-purge.sh >> /root/scripts/cron.log
# Search files more than 14 days with .gz extension and remove it
find /var/log -type f -ctime +7 -regex ".*\.gz$" -delete
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