Tomcat log file in date format

imoncloud · 09-12-2011, 04:21 PM

Hi all,

I was asked to write a new logrotate file for tomcat logs..in which one
of the requirement is to have date and time appended at the end of
the file name.

I have tried dateext and dateformat-%Y-%m-%d-%s but these directives
didn't have the option for HH:MM.

I am very new to this logrotate... I think some scripting in logrotate
might be needed but I am very bad at scripting. Can anyone please tell
me how to get the requirement satisfied.

jason_not · 09-16-2011, 12:00 PM

Hello,

Take a look at the manpage for the date command. You can do quite a bit in terms of filename generation, date conversion, etc. For instance:

date +"%Y-%m-%d" returns:

2011-09-16

and
date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M" returns:
2011-09-16-09:59

--jason