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Skulker 2 is
a log and temporary file management tool for UNIX environments. It
provides a large number of ways of ensuring logs and temporary files
are automatically handled in a way suitable for your installation. It
is more than just a "logrotate" replacement - it offers the following
features:
- Flexible - Files
can be deleted, compressed, rotated, truncated, re-organised, or even
placed into archives. Special handling is available for mail files also.
- Well documented - Installation, configuration and administration guides are available [see the links to the right].
- Powerful - the
rules make full use of Perl regular expressions, allow recursive
matching, pattern matching at the directory level, maximum match
counts, ordering of files to action, etc.
- Cross platform -
It is written in Perl and is regularly used on Linux, Solaris, AIX and
HP-UX. It comes pre-configured with a suitable set of rules for those
platforms.
- XML based - The configuration and rules files [indicating how files are managed] are simple XML - allowing for easy alteration.
- In-built reporting - Text and HTML reporting options covering the previous run, totals for all runs and even historical graphing are available.
- Extensible -
Adding new rules, or changing the supplied ones if very
straightforward. Two examples of application-specific extensions for
dealing with log files in a very specific manner are also supplied.
- Mature - Skulker 2
has been in production use for nearly 2 years despite the low version
number, managing many TB of disk space over that period.
- Protected Directory Support - Stops badly written rules accidently damaging or removing critical files from the system.
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Install Guide
Configuration Guide
Administraters Guide
Rule Configuration Guide |