 | | | Logrotate scripts --- trying to manage the rotated daily files | Logrotate scripts --- trying to manage the rotated daily files 2004-01-14 - By Laura Noe
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I have downloaded logrotate to manage the system logs for many remote systems;
therefore, I have created seperate files for each server and placed them in the
/etc/logrotate.d as per man pages.
The following is a sample config of what I have done so far. All of the
servers are configured very similar since this is the first stages of
configuring a dedicated syslog-ng server.
/etc/logrotate.conf
# !/bin/bash
#
# Global Setting to compress log files after rotation
# and to create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
#
daily
rotate 7
missingok
create
#
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
#
/etc/logrotate.d/servername
!/bin/bash
# Servername Log Rotation
#
/var/log/servername/servername.log {
prerotate
/bin/cp -f /var/log/servername/servername.log /var/log/servername
/servername.log.`date +%b%d%y`
endscript
olddir /var/log/servername/servername.old
}
My goal is to rotate the logs every day, rename the log to reflect the date,
then after 7 days, place them in the servername.old directory. This is not
working, but there is no errors running the cron jobs and no errors reflected
in root's mail. Also, each time that syslog-ng service is stopped and started,
the log is renamed to servername.log.1 or servername.log.2 and so on so forth
which is not my ultimate solution.
Can anyone lend some advise to reach what I am wanting to achieve in
minipulating the rotation of my system logfiles?
Sincerely,
Laura Noe
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