Logrotate scripts

[Tobias Speckbacher]

Take a look at the logrotate manpage

You can set a prerotate section and a postrotate section in
logrotate.conf as well as in the the individual scripts in
/etc/logrotate.d (syslog is what you are interested in under this
directory)

Also if you set messages.1 +i logrotate wont be able to move it to
messages.2 on the next cycle, so you'd probably have to chattr -i
messages.* in prerotate and then +i the whole lot in postrotate again.

Hope this helps,

Tobias

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nathaniel Hall
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:34 PM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: Logrotate scripts

Sorry to keep asking questions, but I need some more input.

 

I am running a syslog server (finally).  I want logrotate to rotate the
logs
when I specify (weekly right now), but here is where the problem is.  I
want
to have the logs set with the Append Only bit set.  When logrotate
rotates
the logs, I want it to remove the Append Only bit, move it to the new
file
(messages.1, for example) and set the Immutable bit to keep it from
being
changed or added to.  When that is finished, I want it to create a new
blank
file with the Append Only bit set.

 

Where can I do this?  I am new to Linux so I started my own project so
that
I can learn.  Thanks a lot.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nathaniel Hall

Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician

Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking

417-799-0552

 

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