eximstats mysql DB growing big..

Hello,

I read some good threads on recreating the eximstats DB using the /usr/local/cpanel/etc/eximstats.sql and eximstats.sql.in..

I wanted to see if anyone here may have an opinion as to how to have the stats flushed or something, as if they keep growing, it will be unmanageable,. Is there an option to have stats gone after two months or so?

I hate to delete it and recreate it by hand, as it is about 500 megs large right now, the design of the use of the DB is such that it seems like it needs a pruning once in a while. Some of the more recent info could be usefull.

Thank you all in advance

 

Hi PlanetMaster

Thanks for your answer. Yes, I know quite well about my log files that grow big, in /var/log and in /var/httpd/domlogs and so on...

Thing is, eximstats can sometimes be usefull for catching someone who may hvae been abusing their mailing rights, so deleting the mysql DB is not my favorite option, what I would love is to crop old data in the DB....

It looks like I may need to hit www.mysql.com and look for a command that deletes older entires I like to keep as much of current log type data as possible, you never know

thanks for your ideas in any case I appreciatte your effort to help!

 

You should be able to do some sort of bash script. Say using some commands like 1) cat file | wc -l, then 2) calculate the percentage of logs you want to keep and ho many lines that it would be, and 2) run tail -that_number file > newlogs, then 4) move new logs over old logs, thereby deleting old logs...

I bet you could do something similar with much more refinement

I want to crop old entires into the exim_stats mysql which is is different than croping a text file. So I got to read up my MySQL I will tackle it the weekend