On Sun, Sep 21, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 19, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> The attached patch to the sh.rotate script sets an environment
> >> variable ROTATE_LOGFILE with the name of the current file being
> >> processed before invoking the epilog or prolog programs. This
> >> permits the epilog/prolog script to do things such as calling
> >> webalizer to process the file being rotated.
> >>
> >> The problem is that defining multiple log files in the rc.conf
> >> file with lines like the follow cause the epilog/prolog programs
> >> to be execute multiple times without knowledge of which file is
> >> being processed.
> >>
> >> apache_log_files="/opkg/var/apache/log/*access*log"
> >>
> >> I first tried having the sh.rotate script add an argument to the
> >> eval of the epilog/prolog command, but this does not work when
> >> the command is compound as in the rc.apache daily processing:
> >>
> >> -E "${apache_log_epilog} && rc apache reload"
> >>
> >> Creating a new environment variable avoids this problem and
> >> cannot break any existing epilog/prolog programs as they will not
> >> be aware of the variable.
> >
> >Ok, taken over into my GNU shtool source tree for inclusion into
> >GNU shtool 2.0.9 -- with just a small adjustment: ROTATE_LOGFILE
> >-> SHTOOL_ROTATE_LOGFILE to avoid any conflicts. Thanks for your
> >contribution, Bill!
>
> I thought you might want to use a more descriptive environment
> variable, and that get it into the main shtool.
>
> Presumably this will make it into the shtool rotate man page?
I've now also added two sentences into the manpage about the variables.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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