[syslog-ng] Logrotate Questions And Solicitation For Ideas...

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:26:15 -0000, Vadim Pushkin said:
> Again, I am looking to rotate my logs, not delete them.  Ideally, something 
> like retaining *.logs.1 *.logs.2, etc.

Oh my.  They *have* to be called logs, logs.1, logs.2, logs.3... logs.30? :)

We find it a lot easier if they're called:

[/logs/aggregate/2006/07]1 ls
maillog-2006-0701  maillog-2006-0711   messages-2006-0702  messages-2006-0712
maillog-2006-0702  maillog-2006-0712   messages-2006-0703  messages-2006-0713
maillog-2006-0703  maillog-2006-0713   messages-2006-0704  messages-2006-0714
maillog-2006-0704  maillog-2006-0714   messages-2006-0705  messages-2006-0715
maillog-2006-0705  maillog-2006-0715   messages-2006-0706  messages-2006-0716
maillog-2006-0706  maillog-2006-0716   messages-2006-0707  messages-2006-0717
maillog-2006-0707  maillog-2006-0717   messages-2006-0708  messages-2006-0718
maillog-2006-0708  maillog-2006-0718   messages-2006-0709  messages-2006-0719
maillog-2006-0709  maillog-2006-0719   messages-2006-0710
maillog-2006-0710  messages-2006-0701  messages-2006-0711

(there's more in ../06 and ../05, going back some 90 days actually).  It's a
lot easier that way than trying to remember how many days ago June 28 was -
we *know* the msgs are in 06/*0628. That's especially helpful when you're
trying to troubleshoot something at 1AM and keep forgetting it's another
day back and keep wondering why you can't find it in June 29th's logs. ;)
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