Re: Fwd: suggestion to handle stock Fedora 8 logrotate changed extension on archived log files

On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Tremaine wrote:

> MrC wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Damon Hart
>>> Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:44 AM
>>> Subject: suggestion to handle stock Fedora 8 logrotate changed
>>> extension on archived log files
>>> To: [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> Following up on some items I found missing in my logwatch daily  
>>> recap
>>>  email, I see that events occurring prior to log rotation were not
>>>  reflected in logwatch. Comparing different machines, it looks  
>>> like this
>>>  problem occurs (in my case) only on Fedora 8 (vs earlier Fedora
>>>  revisions.) Further poking around suggests that the problem arises
>>>  because of the stock Fedora 8 logrotate convention for naming  
>>> archived
>>>  log files. These filenames are now:
>>>
>>>  messages.20080210
>>>  messages.20080203
>>>  messages.20080127
>>>  messages.20080120
>>>
>>>  instead of the prior convention:
>>>
>>>  messages.1
>>>  messages.2
>>>  messages.3
>>>  messages.4
>>>
>
> On my fedora 8 is is - not .
>
>> [mgt@dwarfstar ~]$ ls -al /var/log/messages*
>> -rw------- 1 root root    212 2008-04-30 08:30 /var/log/messages
>> -rw------- 1 root root 574792 2008-04-07 08:39 /var/log/ 
>> messages-20080407
>> -rw------- 1 root root 338783 2008-04-14 07:47 /var/log/ 
>> messages-20080414
>> -rw------- 1 root root 623934 2008-04-21 08:20 /var/log/ 
>> messages-20080421
>> -rw------- 1 root root 804230 2008-04-30 07:02 /var/log/ 
>> messages-20080430
>
>
>>
>>     @TempLogFileList = sort{
>>          ($b =~ /\.(\d+)$/)[0] <=> ($a =~ /\.(\d+)$/)[0]
>>               ||
>>           uc($a) cmp  uc($b)
>>       }(glob($dir . $ReadConfigValues[$i]));
>>
>>
>
>

This seems to work

                        @TempLogFileList = sort{
                            ($b =~ /(\d+)$/) <=> ($a =~ /(\d+)$/) ||  
uc($a) cmp  uc($b)
                         }(glob($dir . $ReadConfigValues[$i]));

The other problem would be in conf/logfiles/maillog since the Archive  
list would be .\d+ rather then -\d+ .. I'll play around with it more  
to try and reach a happy medium.

-Mike