Date String in rotated Logs

[Vassilios Kotoulas]

Hi,

I want to have a date string in my rotated logs, so I added
extension .`date +%Y$m%d`
in my /etc/logrotate.conf but it doesn't work. I have still
$LOGFILE.1.gz

Can I do this via logrotate or have must I run a script via cron after
logrotate runs which renames the .1.gz file?

Regards

[John Mahowald]

I don't think the extension directive runs shell commands. You can do
something like this with the lastaction script which I got from Debian
lists (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg04714.html)

lastaction 
    DATE=`date +%F`; mv /var/log/messages.1.gz /var/log/messages-$DATE.gz 
endscript

Modify to suit your needs.

[Vassilios Kotoulas]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:06 -0500, John Mahowald wrote:
> lastaction 
>    DATE=`date +%F`; mv /var/log/messages.1.gz /var/log/messages-$DATE.gz 
> endscript
>
> Modify to suit your needs.

If I do so, I have to modify each file in /etc/logrotate.d . In this
case I prefer a script via cron which renames all logfiles in a loop.
It's less work ;)