Logrotate Question

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what if you programming a shell script to update the file /etc/logrotate.d/test
and put the script in a cron ?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ian Lists <ian-list at securitypimp.com> wrote:
> I am trying to have logroate archive logs into a dynamic directory structure.  I can 't seem to get the following logroate script to work and I don't know if it is really possible.  It does not seem that the "olddir" option supports variables?  Does anyone have any advice on how to get this completed.
>
> This is the error I get.
> error: /etc/logrotate.d/test:6 bad olddir path "/opt/`date +%Y/%m/%d`"
>
> ######################################################################
> /opt/netlogs/live/*.log {
>        daily
>        prerotate
>                /bin/mkdir -p "/opt/`date +%Y/%m/%d`"
>        endscript
>        olddir "/opt/`date +%Y/%m/%d`"
>        sharedscripts
>        missingok
>        postrotate
>                 /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
>                 /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
>        endscript
> }
> #########################################################################
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
>
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