# Logs maintenance tool/gem needed

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logs-maintenance-tool-gem-needed/180670>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 25, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logs-maintenance-tool-gem-needed/180670 "2009-12-25T17:00:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logs-maintenance-tool-gem-needed/180670/1 "2009-12-25T17:00:10Z")

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Our UNIX environment is made up of couple hundred servers (AIX), with  
hundreds of logs.  
We have a simple ruby script running from the cron that uses a  
property file to maintain these logs.  
I was wondering if there is a tool/gem for logs management that has  
been time-tested, and which we could use.  
We are currently running ruby 1.8.6.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logs-maintenance-tool-gem-needed/180670/2 "2009-12-25T17:04:17Z")

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On Dec 24, 2009, at 09:47 , Ruby S. wrote:

> Our UNIX environment is made up of couple hundred servers (AIX), with  
> hundreds of logs.  
> We have a simple ruby script running from the cron that uses a  
> property file to maintain these logs.  
> I was wondering if there is a tool/gem for logs management that has  
> been time-tested, and which we could use.  
> We are currently running ruby 1.8.6.

why aren’t you using syslog & newsyslog?

`man newsyslog`