Ok, I have Googled this and either I am not asking the right way or I just
can't see what's in front of me (sorry)...

We have log files called app.2011-10-119.log (with the date changing every
day). The log is created by the application each day at midnight.
I have logrotate set to rotate files ending in .log at 4am, with
copytruncate on by default.
If I list the files I see all the old app.2011-10-<X>.log files with a 0
file size.
If I turn off copytruncate, the current days log file will be removed
everyday at 4am.

How can I satisfy both the need to remove yesterday's log file while keeping
the current day?

Here is the logrotate file:

/var/log/app/*.log {
    daily
    rotate 10
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
    create 0644 user user
}

I added notifempty to keep the old empty log files from being compressed...

Thanks,
John

 John Kennedy
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Reply via email to