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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Logrotate exclude log file Post 303005061 by Arnaudh78 on Friday 13th of October 2017 05:43:20 AM
Old 10-13-2017
Logrotate exclude log file

Hi all !

I've an issue to exclude a log file from logrotate, I tried this below:

Code:
/var/log/apache2/[!(*logfile_in_question*)]*.log {
        olddir /var/log/apache2/old
        missingok
        rotate 50
        compress
        copytruncate
        notifempty
        create 644 root root
}

I tried also:

Code:
/var/log/apache2/[!logfile_in_question]*.log

It doesn't work.. Can someone help me please ?Smilie

---------- Post updated 13-10-17 at 04:43 AM ---------- Previous update was 12-10-17 at 09:15 AM ----------

I solved my issue in adding these lines in the logrotate conf file:

Code:
        
prerotate
            bash -c "[[ ! $1 =~ log_in_question ]]"
endscript

Code:
/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        olddir /var/log/apache2/old
        rotate 50
        compress
        copytruncate
        notifempty
        create 644 root root
        prerotate
            bash -c "[[ ! $1 =~ log_in_questiong ]] && [[ ! $1 =~ log_in_question2 ]]"
        endscript
}

Bye ! Smilie
 

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