How can I rotate Copssh log file ?

Copssh 8 syslog daemon writes log messages to /var/log/messages as default. You may need to introduce a log rotation scheme to keep growth of that file under control.

You can use the recipe below to use our free tool logwot8 for that purpose.

Install logwot8 to a separate directory
Edit the configuration file logwot8.conf according to your requirements. The example below will rotate the log file weekly by keeping last 12 weeks of log activiy in compressed files. See documentation for more options.

# Remember cygwin path conventions: 'c:\work' becomes '/cygdrive/c/work'
compress
create

"/cygdrive/c/copssh_x64/var/log/messages {
    rotate 12
    weekly
}

Create a Windows scheduled task running the batch file logwot8.cmd weekly.

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