Mike Marion wrote:
> Here's one I haven't tried yet, and alas, google returns way too much
> unrelated stuff to help.
>
> Would like to take a logrotate.d/procmail.log file of:
> /home/mmarion/Mail/procmail.log {
> compress
> weekly
> dateext
> maxage 999
> rotate 200
> missingok
> olddir archive
> notifempty
> size +20480k
> create 640 mmarion sysadmin
> sharedscripts
> }
>
> and do every user in one config.. I know * will work in the file (i.e.
> /home/*/Mail/procmail.log) but I need the "create" line to basically do:
> create 640 $user users
> matching whatever * matched in the file declaration line. Don't see
> anything obvious in man page that relates to this.. if it can even be
> done. Also, the olddir directive of 'archive' should expand relatively
> to /home/$user/Mail/archive per user as well.
>
(I don't have guru status here, but that won't keep me from talking!)
It sounds like you have a need that wasn't anticipated in the standard
logrotate.
Thoughts:
1. perhaps an email to the maintainer (eric troan wrote the manpage for
the logrotrate that's on my FC4 system)
2. consider freshmeat-listed alternatives
Perl-Logrotate
GNU RottLog
shrotate
3 (ugh) create/delete custom per-user files under /etc/logrotate.d upon
user creation/deletion via some wrapper around normal tools.
..jim
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