Tom, This is a script I cron every night at midnight. crude but it works without flaw. modify the "date" line to whatever you want it to be. hope it helps. Thanks, Dave #!/bin/sh date=`/bin/date +%b%d%y` cp /var/logs/messages /var/logs/messages.$date > /var/logs/messages chmod 600 /var/logs/messages.$date cp /var/logs/firewall /var/logs/firewall.$date > /var/logs/firewall chmod 600 /var/logs/firewall.$date gzip /var/logs/firewall.* mv /var/logs/firewall.* /var/logs/logarchive/ gzip /var/logs/messages.* mv /var/logs/messages.* /var/logs/logarchive/ exit On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:14, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:08:56PM -0500, Genti A. Hila wrote: > > > > I think I didn't explain it quite well: > > I have some log files that are saved from logrotate hourly. > > But what i get is something like message.1 messages.2 etc > > Instead of this i would like to have something like > > mesagges_04\01\21_14\00 > > So to follow the format messages_yy\mm\dd\_hour\minute > > Make sure you are not using meta characters in ways the hurt you. > Commonly \ is used to escape the next character. > In windowZ the \ is used as a file separator. > Same is true of dots '.' which matches any single character. > Spaces are a bugger in file names too. > > Now I wonder if you intended to build a directory tree: > with the format messages_yy/mm/dd/_hour/minute > > > > cp -a file.log intrusion-`date +"%Y.%m.%d_%X"`.log && > file.log > > I have not tried this but I suspect your logrotate configuration file > could have a postrotate line that in addition to sending a signal to > the process did something like: > > mv logfile.1 logfile-ending-on-`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%R` > > This will cause side effects. You are no longer rotating the files. > If you only want 28/29/30/31 files a month then you need log.1 log.2 > ...log.31. type stuff. > > i.e. Now you can run out of space which logrotate is to avoid. > > Compressed files are good, make sure the compression suffix hint is > not lost. > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net >
