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NAME

6       qsrotate - a log rotation tool (similar to Apache's rotatelogs).
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SYNOPSIS

9       qsrotate  -o  <file> [-s <sec> [-t <hours>]] [-b <bytes>] [-f] [-z] [-g
10       <num>] [-u <name>] [-m <mask>] [-p] [-d]
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DESCRIPTION

13       qsrotate reads from stdin (piped log) and writes the data to  the  pro‐
14       vided file rotating the file after the specified time.
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OPTIONS

17       -o <file>
18              Output log file to write the data to (use an absolute path).
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20       -s <sec>
21              Rotation interval in seconds, default are 86400 seconds.
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23       -t <hours>
24              Offset to UTC (enables also DST support), default is 0.
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26       -b <bytes>
27              File  size  limitation  (default/max. are 2147352576 bytes, min.
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30       -f     Forced log rotation at the specified interval even  no  data  is
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33       -z     Compress (gzip) the rotated file.
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36              Generations (number of files to keep).
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39              Become  another  user,  e.g. www-data. -m <mask> File permission
40              which is either 600, 640, 660 (default) or 664.
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42       -p     Writes data also to stdout (for piped logging). -d  Line-by-line
43              data reading prefixing every line with a timestamp.
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EXAMPLE

46         TransferLog  "|/usr/bin/qsrotate  -f  -z  -g 3 -o /var/log/apache/ac‐
47       cess.log -s 86400"
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49       The name of the rotated file will be  /dest/filee.YYYYmmddHHMMSS  where
50       YYYYmmddHHMMSS is the system time at which the data has been rotated.
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NOTE

53        - Each qsrotate instance must use an individual file.
54        -  You may trigger a file rotation manually by sending the signal USR1
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SEE ALSO

58       qsdt(1), qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1),  qshead(1),  qs‐
59       log(1),  qslogger(1),  qsre(1),  qsrespeed(1), qspng(1), qssign(1), qs‐
60       tail(1)
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AUTHOR

63       Pascal Buchbinder, http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/
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