Logrotate - daily log files for a month

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> This can be changed - either change the entry in /etc/crontab, or
>>> remove logrotate from /etc/cron.daily and put an entry in
>>> /etc/cron.d to run it at 12:01 or something like that.
>> Doesn't quite work for me. I have SARG generate daily reports for my
>> proxy usage and if logrotate happens before the SARG process is started,
>> then it generates reports from what is currently in access.log, ie. it's
>> doesn't fetch data from the rotated logs. Other utilities for log
>> analysis may behave differently.
>>
> Well, you could run a daily cron job that pulls everything with
> yesterday's date out of the log and the rotated log, and puts the
> results in a file with the correct date as part of the name. Or, if
> you want to archive the entire month in one file, append the output
> to a fine. Then have a monthly job that renames the file to the
> correct mouth and year, and create a new, empty file to collect the
> next month's job. That way, the daily cron job doesn't have to know
> the month.

The possibilities are endless. :-)

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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