[syslog-ng] Logrotate - recursive directories

Ken Garland ken.garland at rotech.com
Mon Jun 13 22:15:53 CEST 2005


heh, i just emailed the group with another solution i came up with. i
did not really want to go outside the logrotate.d/syslog-ng config and
add more scripts to the server.

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:38:08 EDT, Ken Garland said:
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>>I have syslog-ng setup to add hostname dynamically. When a new server is
>>pointed to the central log server it creates a
>>/var/log/syslogs/$hostname dir and all logs from that host are put in
>>there. in /etc/log/rotate.g/syslog-ng I have tried putting in
>>/var/log/syslogs/* and this will not work.
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>>Is there a way for logrotate to search directories recursively?
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>Think outside the box. ;)
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>/var/log/syslogs/$hostname/$day will automagically start a new log each day.
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>Then 'find /var/log/syslogs -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;' for the cleanup. ;)
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