How to Trim log file size

[dmamattah]

how do i resolve below Problem from my Critical Message Window Portlet

Processes DFMCTMStartup, DataPurge are down

Log files CVDeviceSelector.log.*, psu.log.* exceeded the recommended size limit

i have run

perl logBackup.pl -force -dir D:\LMSBackups

but the file size for PSU.log* is 4000

while CVDeviceSelector.log* is 10240

These numbers stay the same after running the perl script

what am i doing wrong

thanks

[Joe Clarke]

You want to use logrot.pl. Logrot is documented in the CiscoWorks online help (search for logrot). Essentially, run NMSROOT/bin/perl NMSROOT/bin/logrot.pl -c to configure it. Once you have it setup, you can run NMSROOT/bin/perl NMSROOT/bin/logrot.pl without any arguments to rotate the logs, or schedule this rotation using your system's command scheduler.

That said, the recommended limits are quite low, and we often see these flagged in the GUI. In addition to log file rotation, you can adjust the limits in NMSROOT/conf/logstat.conf.