Hello!
I want to run a script just before the logratation of dansguardian's access.log file. I put the follwoing file in /etc/logrotate.d/

#dansguardian

/var/log/dansguardian/access.log {
daily
rotate 5
copytruncate
compress
notifempty
missingok
prerotate
/var/log/dansguardian/view_log_minimal
endscript
}

What is the problem with the above scrpt? it is not working. I think logrotate is not reading that file. I just put that file in the directory, is that enough? Or i have to run any command to make logrotate read the file?

Hi Pippet,

man logrotate says...
OPTIONS
-d Turns on debug mode and implies -v. In debug mode, no changes will be made to the logs or to the logrotate
state file.

so log in as root and try
This will give you an output of everything logrotate will do, without actually touching any files. Examining the output in "less" should allow you to see if your file in logrotate.d is being acted on.

HTH,
dthacker

Sorry I couldn't respond for the last 2 weeks

There wasn't any problem with the conf. file. The problem was in the pre rotate shell script. It was supposed to produce an o/p file. It produced the o/p i require and placed it in / dir since i haven't mentioned the path.
I couldn't it at first.

Thanks alot.
pip