logArchiveToolTask

Project for "Log Archive Tool" task from Linux roadmap on (roadmap.sh) https://roadmap.sh/projects/log-archive-tool

Note: this tool was created and tested only for Ubuntu distribution

Installing (Manual)

1. Download project, you can just download zip or use git clone https://github.com/ideak1ng/logArchiveToolTask.git command in your terminal
2. Unzip files if you downloaded project as zip, then go to logArchiveToolTask directory, you can use cd logArchiveToolTask if you used git clone.
3. Copy log-archive.sh to /usr/local/bin directory, you can do it by using sudo cp log-archive.sh /usr/local/bin/log-archive
4. Give execute permissions to log-archive script sudo chmod u+x /usr/loca/bin/log-archive

Done! Now you can use log-archive <log-directory>, but it will works only for your user, if you want to access that command from any user you should give execute permission to "others", you can do it by using sudo chmod o+rx

Installing (Auto)

1. Download project, you can just download zip or use git clone https://github.com/ideak1ng/logArchiveToolTask.git command in your terminal
2. Unzip files if you downloaded project as zip, then go to logArchiveToolTask directory, you can use cd logArchiveToolTask if you used git clone.
3. Give execute permissions to installer script sudo chmod u+x install.sh and then run install.sh by ./install.sh.

This script will install log-archive in /usr/local/bin directory, change owner and group of log-archive to root, and gives execute permissions to all users.

Usage

• log-archive <log-directory> this command will archive your directory in tar.gz format and place that archive to /your-home-dir/archivedLogs directory. Logs will store in /your-home-dir/archivedLogs/logs.log and error logs will store in /your-home-dir/archivedLogs/errorLogs.log