logrotate for logs that change filenames

badkuk · 11-26-2010, 03:25 AM

hi peeps,

Say that a certain server process generates log files and names them according to the current date; e.g.

server.nov-20.2010.log
server.nov-21.2010.log
server.nov-22.2010.log
server.nov-23.2010.log

i'd like to have logrotate compress the logs that are older than 3 days.

Is this possible with logrotate, or do i just schedule a cron job to bzip everything under the folder older than 3 days?

tia

acid_kewpie · 11-26-2010, 03:57 AM

Well if you're not rotating them in logrotate then you wouldn't really want to be miss using it. I'd just do a much simpler cron job.

find /var/log/whatever/ -mtime +3 | xargs gzip

should do it.