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05-04-2016

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Use of shatedscripts

Hello Matt,

Have a look at the man page:
man logrotate / man logrotate.conf .

You are on the right track. Sharedscripts portion reproduced here.

sharedscripts
Normally, prerotate and postrotate scripts are run for each log which is rotated and the absolute path to the log file is passed as first argument to the script. That means a single script may be run multiple times for log file entries which match multiple files (such as the /var/log/news/* example). If sharedscripts is specified, the scripts are only run once, no matter how many logs match the wildcarded pattern, and whole pattern is passed to them. However, if none of the logs in the pattern require rotating, the scripts will not be run at all. If the scripts exit with error, the remaining actions will not be executed for any logs. This option overrides the nosharedscripts option and implies create option.

Your use looks correct to me.

Cheers,

Nandan

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