Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I was asked to write a new logrotate file for tomcat logs..in which one
of the requirement is to have date and time appended at the end of
the file name.

I have tried dateext and dateformat-%Y-%m-%d-%s but these directives
didn't have the option for HH:MM.

I am very new to this logrotate... I think some scripting in logrotate
might be needed but I am very bad at scripting. Can anyone please tell
me how to get the requirement satisfied.

---------- Post updated 09-13-11 at 04:59 AM ---------- Previous update was 09-12-11 at 02:35 PM ----------

please respond... i need ur help still

If you really want "HH:MM" you can use:

Code:

date +"%R"

I would suggest not having special characters ":" in your file name.

If you want a date and time you can use:

Code:

date +"%Y%m%d%H%M"

Thanks shell.Can you tell me the reason why ":" should not be used in filename because it comes by default when using %R or %T.

I tried with that in the script with

Code:

date=`date +%R`;
mv -f /var/log/dtomcat/catalina.out.1.gz /var/log/dtomcat/catalina.out.$date.gz...

Now the problem is this script works when executed in a seperate file...but when the same script is embedded between postrotate and endscript...its not working... please anyone tell me the reason why its doing like that...and what to be modified to get my script execute