[SOLVED] logrotate or logrotate.conf; problems with sftp

slufoot80 · 11-04-2011, 04:02 PM

Ok I am setting up the "logrotate.conf" file, see below

/var/log/messages
{

prerotate
scp /frank/*.gz root@192.168.1.20:/frank/20`date +%y`/`date +%b`
endscript

daily
missingok
rotate 0
copytruncate
dateext
compress
maxage 36500
olddir /frank
postrotate
# scp /frank/*.gz root@192.168.1.20:/frank/20`date +%y`/`date +%b`
pkill -HUP rsyslogd
endscript
}
the problem when I get to the end of the month it will put the last file dated 10/31 in the "/Nov" directory. do I run "scp" out of the brackets in a global setting or do I keep them in there for a local setting

unSpawn · 11-05-2011, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slufoot80

when I get to the end of the month it will put the last file dated 10/31 in the "/Nov" directory.

Because

Code:

eval echo "20`date +%y`/`date +%b`"

results in "2011/Nov" at time of this logrotate scripts execution?

Quote:

Originally Posted by slufoot80

do I run "scp" out of the brackets in a global setting or do I keep them in there for a local setting

If the action is local to these log files only keep it here, OTOH

Quote:

Originally Posted by slufoot80

Code:

prerotate
 scp /frank/*.gz root@192.168.1.20:/frank/20`date +%y`/`date +%b`
endscript

...why should you do this in the first place? You don't have to scp as root because Rsyslogd has templates for logs. So if you can install it on 192.168.1.20 then you can send /var/log/messages there and process it further as you like. And BTW,

Code:

20`date +%y`/`date +%b`

can be written as

Code:

`date +'%Y/%b'`