Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
I've had a look at the logrotate man page, and it looks like I can use a postrotate/endscript to do this. However, I can see any reference in the documentation for how to operate on the file. All the examples seem to take the form of restarting something, or running some other standalone script. What I want to do is run a sort command against the newly rotated file - but how do I know what it is called?
How about this as an example -
"/home/user/var/log/httpd/*www*log" { daily rotate 1 nocompress notifempty copytruncate missingok sharedscripts
olddir /usr/local/log/httpd/archives
postrotate DATE=`date --date=Yesterday +%y%m%d` cd /usr/local/log/httpd/archives for FOO in `ls *.1` do mv $FOO `echo $FOO | cut -f1 -d.`.$DATE.log done gzip -9 *.$DATE.log sleep 60 sync logger "[LOGROTATE] Rotated these logs: `echo *.${DATE}.log.gz`" endscript
}
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