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# 1  
Old 12-11-2009
Logrotate configuration problem
Hi,

I have the following configuration file:

Code:
/logs/system/mindundi/* {
        rotate 0
        daily
        missingok
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
        find /logs/system/mindundi/ -name "*log" -mtime +15 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
        endscript
}

I want to save only the last 15 days old, but this configuration deletes all.

NOTE: All the files in the mindundi directory have a different name (f.e. abc123-20091211.log, abc178-20091210.log)

For more info config of logrotate.conf:

Code:
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
#create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

Can anybody help me?

Thanks,

Mitch.
# 2  
Old 12-11-2009
Code:
/logs/system/mindundi/* {
        rotate 0
        daily
        missingok
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
        find /logs/system/mindundi/ -name "*log" -mtime +15 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
        endscript
}


rotate 0 is the culprit which removes everything i believe.
# 3  
Old 12-11-2009
I have the same problem. If the problem is rotate, how can I fix it?
# 4  
Old 12-11-2009
The problem is you're using logrotate for something it wasn't designed for.

It was written to move/compress/truncate/... logs at a certain size or after a certain time since it was first seen/last rotated, and to make sure those rotated are still available. It's been designed to manage ever-growing logs like Apaches access_log/error_log or syslog. It's not been designed to remove singular logs.

If you just want to delete files after they've not been modified for a certain time, create a cronjob for that:
Code:
0 2 * * * find /logs/system/mindundi/ -name "*log" -mtime +15 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;

# 5  
Old 12-11-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by OrBiS
I have the same problem. If the problem is rotate, how can I fix it?

To fix it, you need increase the rotate 0 to to some other number, to save last 5 days file, then use:

Code:
rotate 5

# 6  
Old 12-18-2009
i found solution ^^

logrotate.sh
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

mkdir -p /tmp/logrotate
touch -t 0101010101 /tmp/logrotate/dummy
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

And config file:
Code:
/tmp/logrotate/dummy {
firstaction
        find /logs/xxx/*/xxx* -name "*.log" -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
        find /logs/yyy/*/www* -name "www*.log" -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
        find /logs/zzz/*/qqq* -name "*.log*" -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
endscript
rotate 1
daily
missingok
}

is similar to your proposal, but so is centralized around with logrotate
# 7  
Old 12-29-2009
It works ^^
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