Logrotating single-issue files
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Mon Nov 10 11:50:59 UTC 2003
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:12:48PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The problem is of course once the files have been rotated once nothing
> will recreate the original files so they'll be stuck in first rotation
> forever (of course one might tell logrotate to create empty new files
> after compression but that means filling the disk with empty files -
> plus gziped empty files are *not* zero-sized anymore).
Well, yes, but at first sight creating new empty files seems to be
the best solution. Furthermore, IIRC you can define a shell script
as "compresscmd" in your logrotate config, that could be like this
(all untested, RTFM, I don't know the exact interface):
if [ -s $1 ]; then
gzip $1
else
mv $1 $1.gz
fi
Cheers,
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