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chris
Asked: 2016-01-06 12:45:54 +0800 CST

postrotate script is not receiving rotated file name

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I'm trying to do some processing on an exim log, but my script is not receiving the rotated log file name as a parameter - rather, it's getting the original log file name (which no longer exists)

/var/log/exim/*log" {
  daily
  rotate 3650
  delaycompress
  missingok
  notifempty
  nosharedscripts
  postrotate
   echo $0 $1 $2 >> /tmp/out
   /path/to/script $1
  endscript
}

The results in /tmp/out:

  logrotate_script /var/log/exim/main.log

I'm running 

logrotate --force -v /etc/logrotate.conf

Output seems to indicate that it's renaming, then running:

renaming /var/log/exim/main.log to /var/log/exim/main.log-20160105
running postrotate script

This is on an amazon linux instance. I've tried it with both sharedscripts and nosharedscripts options with no difference.

How can I get the old renamed file name?

amazon-web-services

1 Answers

  1. If result log file is (logfilepath).(log)-(20160105) formated, Maybe you can try this:

    postrotate
DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
/path/to/script $1-$DATE
endscript

    If you want (logfilepath)-(20160105).(log) format, youcan use:

    postrotate
DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
LOGF=${1%*.}
/path/to/script $LOGF-$DATE.log
endscript

    with $1 return logfilepath

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