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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Logrotate and Compressing only yesterdays files Post 303037872 by MyUserName7000 on Thursday 15th of August 2019 10:36:12 AM
Old 08-15-2019
Logrotate and Compressing only yesterdays files
Hello,

I have a syslog server at home and am currently experiencing an issue where my logs will rotate and compress however it will rotate and compress yesterdays file and the newly created log file for the current day. When it does this however it will also create another new file for today and as a result my compressed files look like this:

Code:
4.8M Aug 12 23:59 router.2019.08.12.log.1.gz--> this will be the encrypted log file from the 11th of August
5.3K Aug 12 00:02 router.2019.08.12.log.2.gz--> this will be the encrypted log file from the 12th of August Morning
37M Aug 12 00:02 router.2019.08.12.log --> this will be the new current day log file

Here is a copy of my syslog-ng.conf:

Code:
/var/log/router/router.*.log
{
        rotate 2
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d syslog-ng reload > /dev/null
        endscript
}

Here is the section in my syslog-ng.conf file that is relevant to the logs above

Code:
# Router ###########
# Add Filter to add our router
filter router { host( "192.168.XX.1" ); };
# Add destination file where logs will be stored
#destination df_router { file("/home/pi/files/router.log"); };
log { source ( s_net ); filter( f_router ); destination ( df_router ); };
destination df_router {
file("/var/log/router/router.${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}.log"
template-escape(no));
};

Here is my cron job that is running:

Code:
02 00 * * * sudo logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

My question is this, what do I do in order to make sure that only yesterdays file gets compressed at 2 minutes beyond midnight instead of both current and yesterday files. If there is any other information required don't hesistate to ask.
Last edited by MyUserName7000; 08-15-2019 at 01:32 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ramond.conf

ramond.conf(5)							File Formats Manual						    ramond.conf(5)

NAME

       ramond.conf - Configuration file for ramond(8)

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ramond.conf configuration file.

       ramond.conf is an XML file containing the rules for Router Advertisement processing by ramond(8).

       The rules are processed in the order they are defined in the file.

SYNTAX

       One may refer to the DTD given in /usr/share/doc/ramond/examples/ramond.conf.dtd.

       The root element, <ramond>, contains one optional attribute, logfile, giving the path to the logfile for the daemon.

       This element may contain one or more <mac-list>s, and one or more <rule>s.

       The <mac-list> must have a name attribute, and contains one or more <entry>elements.

       The <rule> may contain a few attributes :

       prefix An IPv6 prefix used for matching RA packets

       mac    A <mac-list> name used for matching source MAC addresses of the RA packets

       lifetime
	      This attribute, when having a "0" value, is used for matching routes that are being cleared

       interface
	      The interface which the RA packet came from

       The <rule> may contain :
	 o one or more <execute> elements containing the path of the scripts to run when a packet is matched
	 o a <clear/> element, so that the matched route will be cleared by ramond(8)
	 o or no element, indicating an "ignore" rule.

ENVIRONMENT

       The environment variables the configured scripts are run with are listed in the ramond(8) manpage.

EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE

       Set the logfile to be /var/log/ramond.log.

	<ramond logfile="/var/log/ramond.log">

	 Define a router mac-list.

	  <mac-list name="router">
	    <entry>00:11:22:33:44:55</entry>
	    <entry>00:22:44:66:88:00</entry>
	  </mac-list>

	 Define a rule checking if the router routes are being cleared.

	  <rule mac="router" lifetime="0">
	    <execute>/usr/local/sbin/routenotify route-cleared</execute>
	  </rule>

	 Define a rule ignoring our router announcing routes for prefix 2001:dead:cafe:babe::/52.

	  <rule mac="router" prefix="2001:dead:cafe:babe::/52">
	    <!-- do nothing -->
	  </rule>

	 Clear the 6to4 routes coming on interface eth0.

	  <rule prefix="2002::/16" interface="eth0">
	    <execute>/usr/local/sbin/routenotify 6to4-advertised</execute>
	    <clear/>
	  </rule>

	 Match on all advertised prefixes

	  <rule prefix="::/0">
	    <execute>/usr/local/sbin/routenotify route-advertised</execute>
	  </rule>

	 Match on all RA packets (even those not advertising a prefix)

	  <rule>
	    <execute>/usr/local/sbin/routenotify route-advertised</execute>
	  </rule>

	</ramond>

SEE ALSO

       ramond(8), /usr/share/doc/ramond/examples for a sample ramond.conf and a sample processing script

AUTHORS

       James Morse <morse_@users.sourceforge.net>
	      Wrote the ramond software.

       Nicolas Dandrimont <nicolas.dandrimont@crans.org>
	      Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Nicolas Dandrimont

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the usual 3-clause BSD license.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the 3-clause BSD license License can be found in /usr/share/doc/ramond/copyright.

																    ramond.conf(5)
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