On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Ajeesh Kannan <ajeeshbkan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Ajeesh Kannan <ajeeshbkan...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > H,
>> >
>> > i have added logrotate as follows,
>> >
>> > log.* {
>> > daily
>> > missingok
>> > rotate 2
>> > dateext
>> > dateformat %Y-%m-%d.
>> > compress
>> > maxage 40
>> > }
>> >
>> > But now the zipped logs are again and again zipping.
>> >
>> > .gz-20151011.gz2015-11-10..gz
>> >
>> > Can you check anything wrong in my logrotating
>>
>> I don't think the above will work. "log.*" wildcard matches the
>> compressed files also. So change the regex or specify the log file's
>> complete name.
>>
>> Also, logrotate would need some finite amount of time to rename the
>> current log file and replace it with a 0 length logfile for the daemon
>> to log.
>>
>> If your daemon supports a SIGHUP, then it might be worhtwile to do a
>> postrotate SIGHUP so that the daemon starts logging on the new file.
>> Also, try delaycompress in conjuction with compress. For more
>> details, RTFM "man logrotate."
>>
>> You may have to experiment with the logrotate options to get what you
>> want.
>>
>> Just a thought, if your distro is a RHEL/derivative check for SELinux
>> gotchas.
>>
>> It would be great if you could share your solution.
>>
>> HTH,
>> -- Arun Khan
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>
>
> Thank you for your update.
>
> I am keeping 90 logs like :
> message.log.1
> message.log.2
> message.log.3
> .
> .
> message.log.90
>
> and I need to keep two archive files for every log for 40 days files. But
> now the logrotate
> log.* {
>
> option is taking "message.log.3.gz" files also in the next logrotate
> cycle.
>
> I need to exclude the .gz files rotation.
>
> --
> With Regards,
> Ajeesh B.Kannan
>
>
I think this will fix ::
log.[1-9][0-9] {
daily
missingok
rotate 2
dateext
dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s
compress
maxage 40
}
--
With Regards,
Ajeesh B.Kannan
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