On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:15 +0100, John Horne wrote: > 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. Hi John, the short answer, which I haven't seen anybody yet give you, is, logrotate can't do what you want to do. You're going to have to take care of things yourself with some scripting. Andy
