On Fri, Sep 19, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The attached patch to the sh.rotate script sets an environment
> variable ROTATE_LOGFILE with the name of the current file being
> processed before invoking the epilog or prolog programs. This
> permits the epilog/prolog script to do things such as calling
> webalizer to process the file being rotated.
>
> The problem is that defining multiple log files in the rc.conf
> file with lines like the follow cause the epilog/prolog programs
> to be execute multiple times without knowledge of which file is
> being processed.
>
> apache_log_files="/opkg/var/apache/log/*access*log"
>
> I first tried having the sh.rotate script add an argument to the
> eval of the epilog/prolog command, but this does not work when
> the command is compound as in the rc.apache daily processing:
>
> -E "${apache_log_epilog} && rc apache reload"
>
> Creating a new environment variable avoids this problem and
> cannot break any existing epilog/prolog programs as they will not
> be aware of the variable.
Ok, taken over into my GNU shtool source tree for inclusion into
GNU shtool 2.0.9 -- with just a small adjustment: ROTATE_LOGFILE
-> SHTOOL_ROTATE_LOGFILE to avoid any conflicts. Thanks for your
contribution, Bill!
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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