On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:58 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Using Fedora 7, I am trying to see how we can rotate some log files each > > day, but keep a month's worth of files. > > > > Logrotate can rotate the files daily, and I can specify something like: > > > > daily > > start 1 > > rotate 30 > > > > But this does not account for month's of 31 days, or February with 28/29 > > days. Likewise if I set 'rotate 31' then this is not going to work on > > those months of just 30 days. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas about this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > John. > > > You can control how many old log files are kept by changing "rotate > 4" to how many weeks of backlogs you want to keep, This is in > /etc/logrotate.conf. You can control individual logs by editing the > corresponding file in /etc/logrotate.d and adding/changing the > rotate line. You can find more information by running "man logrotate". > ? We want daily log files, so setting 'rotate 4' will only give us 4 log files. Using weeks is no good because a month is not a fixed number of weeks - 30 and 31 days are not 4 weeks and vice-versa. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
