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cwd
Asked: 2011-06-24 15:10:42 +0800 CST

How do I tell logrotate what files to rotate with cron?

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On my webserver I have this file: /etc/logrotate.d/apache2

I know it is logrotating /var/log/apache2/.log, but if I want to add things that are in /usr/home/www/site1/logs/.log do I just duplicate everything below and stick that line in there? Each time I add a new site do I need to manually add lines to this file?

Or what is the most professional way to do this?

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
    weekly
    missingok
    rotate 52
    compress
    delaycompress
    notifempty
    create 640 root adm
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then
            /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
        fi
    endscript
}
apache-2.2 logrotate

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    How about:

    /var/log/apache2/*.log /usr/home/www/*/logs/*.log {
  weekly    
  .
  .
  .
}

    In other words, just list all the paths you need, separated by spaces. Logrotate will then check all the paths. By the way you can also test your config as noted here with the debug option -d:

    logrotate -d /path/to/config

    In the output it will list all the files it checks:

    considering log /var/log/nginx/access.log
  log does not need rotating
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