Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I guess this is more of a wish for upstream, but since I haven't been
able to locate any bug tracker or even website for upstream, I'll report
here.
Currently, logrotate supports the "olddir" options, for moving rotated
logfiles to a separate directory. Logrotate insists that this directory
to rotate to exists when checking the configuration file. If the dir
does not exist, it errors out with an error like:
error: rsyslog-central:23 error verifying olddir path
/data/log/rsyslog/log/apps/archive: No such file or directory
I would suggest for logrotate to automatically create this directory if
it does not exist yet (probably configurable with a createolddir option
or something similar).
This automatic creation is needed to support my dynamic logging
environment: I have syslog files for different hosts, each of which have
their own olddirs. Since directories for new hosts can be created at any
time, I can't statically create the olddirs, so autocreation of these
dirs would be needed (though I just realized that a script like
for i in /foo/*; do mkdir -p $i/archive; done
would also do the trick, though it is slightly less elegant...)
Gr.
Matthijs
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/logrotate.d
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 2008-06-08 14:28 apt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 2008-07-04 18:56 aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 2008-06-18 10:11 dpkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 2009-05-05 10:17 rsyslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 836 2009-05-05 13:27 rsyslog-central
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7-grsec2.1.11-vs2.2.0.7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages logrotate depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.20 Debian base system master password
ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
Versions of packages logrotate recommends:
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
logrotate suggests no packages.
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