로그를 날짜 별로 생성 또는 압축해서 관리 할수 있도록
별도의 파일을 하나 만들어서 아래 내용을 붙여넣기 하신 다음에 crontab 에다
등록하시며 편리하게 로그를 관리 할 수 있을 겁니다.

#Bill Pennington 1/19/2000

#Set the date variable
date=`date +%m-%d-%Y`

#Rename the messages file
mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.$date
#HUP the syslog daemon so it writes to a new file
killall -HUP syslogd

#Compress the file
#!/bin/bash
#Simple script to rotate the log files on a daily basis
#Bill Pennington 1/19/2000

#Set the date variable
date=`date +%m-%d-%Y`

#Rename the messages file
mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.$date
#HUP the syslog daemon so it writes to a new file
killall -HUP syslogd

#Compress the file
#!/bin/bash
#Simple script to rotate the log files on a daily basis
#Bill Pennington 1/19/2000

#Set the date variable
date=`date +%m-%d-%Y`

#Rename the messages file
mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.$date
#HUP the syslog daemon so it writes to a new file
killall -HUP syslogd

#Compress the file
/bin/gzip /var/log/messages.$date
#Rename the secure file
mv /var/log/secure /var/log/secure.$date

#HUP the syslog daemon so it writes to a new file
killall -HUP syslogd

#Compress the file
/bin/gzip /var/log/secure.$date