Hi,
I’m probably missing something here...
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, John Kennedy wrote:
> Ok, I have Googled this and either I am not asking the right way or I just
> can't see what's in front of me (sorry)...
>
> We have log files called app.2011-10-119.log (with the date changing every
> day). The log is created by the application each day at midnight.
> I have logrotate set to rotate files ending in .log at 4am, with
> copytruncate on by default.
> If I list the files I see all the old app.2011-10-<X>.log files with a 0
> file size.
> If I turn off copytruncate, the current days log file will be removed
> everyday at 4am.
You mean current day’s? And by “current day’s”, you mean the logs after midnight up to 4 a.m.?
> How can I satisfy both the need to remove yesterday's log file while keeping
> the current day?
Why not run your logrotate just right after midnight? (Instead of at 4 a.m.)
> Here is the logrotate file:
>
> /var/log/app/*.log {
> daily
> rotate 10
> compress
> missingok
> notifempty
> create 0644 user user
> }
>
> I added notifempty to keep the old empty log files from being compressed...
Or, forget about logrotate and simply run a script right after midnight with something like the ff:
rm app.`date --date="yesterday" +%Y-%m-%d`.log
> Thanks,
> John
>
> John Kennedy
>
HTH,
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