logrotate

[J]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 13:05, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The file size is around 36GB generated daily which is logrotated at midnight
>

Doh... is that really necessary?  Is this system getting THAT much
activity that it's generating 36GB of daily Tomcat logs, or are you
logging all debug output or something else...  wow...

>> This could be a good use case for having a remote log server, too...
>>
>
> Please provide me with pointers regarding remote log server, Any open source
> based solution

How about Google for Ubuntu remote rsyslog

Seems to yield several tutorials and how-tos for setting up remote log
servers...

I'd also seriously consider having logrotate break those logs files
down into smaller chunks... a 36GB log file is WAY too much and if you
have any sort of scripts that parse the logs, they'll take forever
parsing logs that big...

No wonder logrotate eats up so much system resource...