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Old 07-13-2005
passing values into logrotate??
Wondering if this is possible?

OK, here is my question. I'm backing up a TON of different logs in different locations. I'm querying a database for the information. What I'd like to do, is pass that information into a logrotate script for the backup..

i.e. I'm trying to do the following:

logrotate -v /usr/local/bin/logrotate-config DIR1 HOST REFNUM (these last three would in theory be fed by a perl script)

Where logrotate-config is:

/logs/backups/$1/$2{
nomissingok
compress
nomail
notifempty
olddir /logs/archive/$2-archive
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
mv /logs/backups/$1/$2 /logs/archives/$1.$3.`date +%Y%m%d`.$2
endscript
}


Is something like this possible? It doesn't work so far...

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 06-09-2008
Kinda ugly, but...
  1. Call "myScript.pl" which writes the logrotate-config file
  2. Call logrotate (inside Perl script) using the newly created logrotate-config
  3. Repeat for all possibilities
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