prompt: I'd like some help setting up a cron job to compress log files on a weekly basis on a CentOS server, then delete if they are older than 30 days. Can you come up with a command or script I can use?
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chosen.content: A chat.
chosen.role: user
chosen.content: I'd like some help setting up a cron job to compress log files on a weekly basis on a CentOS server, then delete if they are older than 30 days. Can you come up with a command or script I can use?
chosen.role: assistant
chosen.content: One standard way to handle logs in Linux is the logrotate command. When installed on your system, the package installer creates a default schedule in cron that calls it daily, so you only need to update its configuration file, either in /etc/logrotate.conf or in the /etc/logrotate.d directory. Here is a sample configuration you can use to do what you need:
  
  /var/log/YOUR_OUTPUT_LOG_NAME {
          weekly
          compress
          missingok
          notifempty
          maxage 30 }
  
  This will compress logs older than a week and delete logs older than 30 days. Your output log name can either be a single log like System.out.log, or it can be a wildcard matching an output format like subversion_*.log
rejected.role: system
rejected.content: A chat.
rejected.role: user
rejected.content: I'd like some help setting up a cron job to compress log files on a weekly basis on a CentOS server, then delete if they are older than 30 days. Can you come up with a command or script I can use?
rejected.role: assistant