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Old 12-02-2011
Help me with find and tar on postrotate script
Hi,

My requirements are
  1. I wanted to move my daily logs to /appl/logs/old folder
  2. Archive and compress all 10 days older log files under /appl/logs/old in YYYYMMDD format file
  3. To remove any 60 days older log files from /appl/logs/old

I tried this scenario with logrotate utility
Code:
/appl/logs/SIN* {
daily
rotate 1
nocreate
nocompress
olddir /appl/logs/old
nodateext
missingok
notifempty
postrotate
export NEW=/appl/logs/old
cd $NEW/old
/usr/bin/find $NEW -name 'SIN*' -type f -mtime +10 | awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' > status
tar --remove-files -cvzf $NEW/`date '+%Y%m%d'.tgz` -T $NEW/status
#/usr/bin/find $NEW/old -name 'SIN*' -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
/usr/bin/find $NEW/old/archive -mtime +60 -exec rm -f {} \;
endscript

Problem i am facing here is , when I run it with remove option or removing by using commented find command
its archive only one file

And when i execute manually the above command , it is running as per expectation

Please help me on this issue , suggest me some alternate solution

Thanks
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Mod Comment Please use code tags!
Last edited by laxyblack; 12-02-2011 at 05:49 AM.. Reason: please use code tags for your code and data next time, thanks
# 2  
Old 12-02-2011
I am not sure you can separate your commands like that in logrotate. Either put them in a script and invoke that script in logrotate or put sh -c "..." around your commands with appropriate escaping of existing double quotes.
 
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