Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon 
On Monday 21 December 2009 05:52:55 Dale wrote:
 Harry Putnam wrote:
  Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
  either size or age?
 
  I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
  rotate on more than one condition.
 
  I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
  than 12 rotations for whatever reason.
 
  /var/log/debug.log {
 create 0600 reader wheel
  weekly || size=7000k
  rotate 12
  postrotate
/etc/init.d/rsyslog reload  /dev/null 21 || true
  endscript
  }
 
  Is clearly NOT the right way to go.
 
  Any know how to do it?
 
 man logrotate has a few examples that may help.  Here is one.
 
/var/log/httpd/access.log /var/log/httpd/error.log {
rotate 5
mail w...@my.org
size 100k
sharedscripts
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
}
 
 
 I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.

That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k.
The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every 
week, whichever comes first.

Logrotate does not support that feature.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:42:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

 That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to
 100k. The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain
 size, or every week, whichever comes first.
 
 Logrotate does not support that feature.

What happens if you set up two separate rules, one to rotate at 100K and
one at 7 days?


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Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-20 Thread Dale 

Harry Putnam wrote:

Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
either size or age?

I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
rotate on more than one condition.

I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
than 12 rotations for whatever reason.

/var/log/debug.log {
   create 0600 reader wheel
weekly || size=7000k
rotate 12
postrotate
  /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload  /dev/null 21 || true
endscript
}

Is clearly NOT the right way to go.

Any know how to do it?
  


man logrotate has a few examples that may help.  Here is one.

  /var/log/httpd/access.log /var/log/httpd/error.log {
  rotate 5
  mail w...@my.org
  size 100k
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
  /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
  endscript
  }


I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.

Dale

:-)  :-)