Hi,
I want to have logrotate name my rotated apache logs with today's date (e.g., access_log.092804.gz instead of access_log.1.gz).
I am sure some combination of things in /etc/logrotate.d/apache will do the trick, either pre-rotation or post-rotation, etc. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
-Mike
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dateext
Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension like YYYYMMDD instead of
simply adding a number.
option of logrotate
man logrotate
/var/log/httpd/access_log {
daily
dateext
missingok
rotate 31
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
compress
}
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by: mj9821Posted on 2004-09-27 at 22:25:49ID: 12166698
Here is my current logrotate settings:
/var/log/httpd/access_log {
daily
missingok
rotate 31
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
compress
}