{"id":2304,"date":"2018-08-28T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbtut.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:25:00","slug":"bash-script-for-mysql-general-log-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbtut.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/bash-script-for-mysql-general-log-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bash Script for Mysql General Log Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the simple script for monitoring &amp; auditing mysql general logs.This can be set as per the need(eg. daily,horly).It will help in capturing both DDL &amp; DML Operations on database.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nError_log_location=\/var\/log\r\nrot_log_path=\/home\/db_audit_log\r\nbkp_log_path=\/BACKUP\/database\/db_audit_logs\r\n\r\nSERNAME=\"dbtut\"\r\nSERVER=\"ip-10.0.0.1\"\r\nMAIL_LIST=\"xxx@gmail.com\"\r\nattach_path=\"\/home\/db_audit_log\/mysql_audit_alert.log.gz\"\r\n\r\negrep -i 'alter table|update table|delete table' $Error_log_location\/mysql_audit.log | sort -u &gt; $rot_log_path\/mysql_audit.txt\r\nsudo cat $Error_log_location\/mysql_audit.log | gzip &gt; $rot_log_path\/mysql_audit_alert.log.gz\r\nsudo cat $Error_log_location\/mysql_audit.log | gzip &gt; $bkp_log_path\/mysql_audit_archieved_`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`.log.gz\r\n\r\nif [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\r\n\r\nsudo cat \/dev\/null &gt; $Error_log_location\/mysql_audit.log\r\n\r\nelse\r\n\r\necho \"fail to empty the file\"\r\n\r\nfi\r\n\r\nif [ -s \"$rot_log_path\/mysql_audit.txt\" ]; then\r\ncat $rot_log_path\/mysql_audit.txt | mutt -s \"Daily Audit Log for Mysql database for $SERNAME ($SERVER) at `date` \" 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