From: "Massimo S." <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [eCS-ISP] script to rotate logs, old mails etc. and create a
 dated zip
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:31:19 +0200
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Il 14/10/2025 09:15, Peter Moylan ha scritto:
> On 14/10/25 16:06, Steven Levine wrote:
>> In <list-14421040@2rosenthals.com>, on 10/12/25
>>     at 10:30 PM, "Ian Manners" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com> said:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>>> thanks, but i guess this script can't help me
>>
>> What makes you say this?  Have you tried to edit the script as suggested?
>>
>>> It will, you simply have to modify it to your needs.
>>
>> I agree.  As written, the script or a modified version will handle any log
>> file that is closed when the script runs.
>>
>> There's a small window of time when the script will fail bacause because
>> weasel is appending weasel.$$$ to weasel.log.  A bit of error checking and
>> a retry should handle this.
>>
>> Currently, the script is not capable of moving apache logs which are kept
>> open.
>>
>> This requires a script that knows how to shut down and restart apache so
>> that the move can succeed.
>>
>>> I use the same script to archive *.log files for both weasel and
>>> FTPServer, then delete the logs after. All you need to do is change
>>> .'log'  to .'msg', the date part is already in the script, and becomes
>>> part of the  archived filename.
>>
>> I suspect Massimo wants to run the script for multiple .msg files.  This
>> will require simple modifications to the script so that the script does a
>> SysFileTree collect the names of the files to rename and wraps the rename
>> and move logic in a do loop.
> 
> Actually, what he wants is simpler than that. All that he needs is a
>       "zip zipfile *.msg"
> plus a rename of the zipfile to include a timestamp in the name. No loops needed.
> 
> A point worth making here is that Rexx is a very easy language to learn
> and understand. Unless you're trying to do something complicated, you
> don't need any great programming skills. Anyone who doesn't know Rexx
> will find it worth the small effort needed to work out how to modify Rexx scripts.
> 
> I write my utility scripts in Rexx precisely because I know that people
> are likely to have slightly different requirements from what the
> original script does. Thus, I need something that's easy to modify. Rexx
> is good for that.

Hi,

i do some simple rexx script, but i'm not so good..
I'm able to write a script that zip with the currentdate in the file name and zip all *.msg

but i need to do with files older that a number of days and also the original files
in the source dir must be deleted after the operation

i've a moveold.cmd script to move .msg older than 365 days to an offline dir
but i also need after to zip them and delete them in the offline dir

let me know if you are interested i can send you "moveold.cmd"

massimo