logrotate is rotating all the rotations, how do I stop this?
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# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
/etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log {
missingok
daily
size 100M
maxage 60
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
}
Your http server is seemingly already using dates as part of the file name based on the very last file in your list (the name includes November 1 as part of the name and that is also the date on the file). I would suggest that you take a different tact with those files...
Create a section SPECIFICALLY for that directory and those files. As part of that section, shut down the daemon cleanly, rotate out the file, make a new one, and then start the daemon back up. Additionally, I would suggest that you compress the files to save space, or at least compress ones over a certain age. Based on most of the files having no size, I suspect that you are not actually rotating the files out at all.
I'm thinking his part of the term is causing problems considering your file name structure:
Code:
/etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log
Because it is not "STAR DOT log" it is "STAR log" which means files with log in the name.
Try adding an olddir term to your rotate.log. Make an /etc/httpd/rotated directory and then do something like this:
Code:
# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
/etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log {
missingok
olddir /etc/http/rotated
daily
size 100M
maxage 60
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
}
This will place your rotated files into the /etc/httpd/rotated directory.
If you also put in a "rotate #" term it will save that many backups, like "rotate 5" will append .1, .2, .3, .4, and .5 to files which get rotated. Note that 'rotate 0" will erase the file and start a new one.
Please also remember to place your code or comments within [code][/code] tags.
I was thinking similar, but **log does not mean the same as *log* (which would truly mean having "log" in the name as opposed to at the end). And, it would need to be the latter definition in order to rotate those with log only in the name.
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