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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. Latest version also includes
"generators" support for matching files based on condition [such as
older than last reboot, or having no valid user ID].
- 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 |