2009/11/9 Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com>: > On Monday 09 November 2009 10:00:32 am Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: >> I want to be certain that my apache and varnish logfiles are in strict >> date order when rotated. I'd like to run a sort command against them >> before they're compressed. > > I use the dateext option in my logrotate configuration file so that rotated > files have the date appended to the filename. I also compress them so they > end up like: > > whatever-site-access.log.20090930.gz ... Yes, I do that too. > If > you want them strictly sorted by date you'll need to investigate. I'm not > sure if logrotate provides any facility in order to manipulate the "current" > file being rotated so maybe you'll have to do this via a shells cript & cron > (after logs are rotated). That would be a shame... it would work, but it would suck. S.