Re: logrotate compress issue

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Ajeesh Kannan <[email protected]>
> 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
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