Crontab help.

[Pinnacle101]

Is it possible to make a cronjob that deletes log files older than, lets say 30 days?

And if it is possible, how do I do it?

crontab --- ?

[RedGren]

A simple way to do it would be to write a little shell script that does it and call that script via crontab.

[Craig McPherson]

Well, you could.

But why not just use logrotate, because it's already there and it does a lot of stuff? It would take a lot of work to reinvent the wheel when logrotate is probably already all you need.