tag 519432 +patch
thanks
On Thu 12 Mar 2009, Paul Slootman wrote:
> It would be great if an environment variable was made available to the
> postrotate script so that the script can do something relevant to it.
> Something like LOGROTATED_LOG for example... This would then contain the
> name of the rotated log (including the .gz if nodelaycompress is in
> force).
I've hacked up a patch to do this, see attachment.
Paul
put name of rotated logfile into environment.
closes: #519432
Index: logrotate-3.7.7/logrotate.c
===================================================================
--- logrotate-3.7.7/logrotate.c.orig
+++ logrotate-3.7.7/logrotate.c
@@ -1275,6 +1275,14 @@
message(MESS_DEBUG, "not running postrotate script, "
"since no logs were rotated\n");
} else {
+ static char *env_LOGROTATED_FILE = NULL;
+ char *p = rotNames[j]->finalName ? rotNames[j]->finalName : "";
+ int len = strlen("LOGROTATED_FILE=x") + strlen(p); /* the x accounts for the null byte */
+ if (env_LOGROTATED_FILE == NULL || strlen(env_LOGROTATED_FILE) + 1 != len) {
+ env_LOGROTATED_FILE = realloc(env_LOGROTATED_FILE, len);
+ }
+ sprintf(env_LOGROTATED_FILE, "LOGROTATED_FILE=%s", p);
+ putenv(env_LOGROTATED_FILE);
message(MESS_DEBUG, "running postrotate script\n");
if (runScript(log->pattern, log->post)) {
if (log->flags & LOG_FLAG_SHAREDSCRIPTS)
@@ -1289,6 +1297,7 @@
logHasErrors[j] = 1;
hasErrors = 1;
}
+ putenv("LOGROTATED_FILE"); /* remove from environment */
}
}
