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The logrotate 'rotate' directive and migrating from daily to weekly
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I have a server collecting syslog messages from the network. Logrotate is currently setup and working, and the config looks like such:
/logs/*/log
daily
rotate 60
Instead of rotating daily, I'd like weekly. Obviously, I'm keeping 60 days' logs, so I would likely be changing the rotate 60 to rotate 8, which would keep 8 weeks' logs.
My questions are these:
- If I change from daily to weekly and keep 8 logs, when logrotate
runs will it delete the 52 oldest daily logs, or is it smart enough
to notice the date stamps on the files, and realize that 8 weeks’
time is 2 months ago? - If I run logrotate manually with the
-fflag
to force rotation, and I did this 8 times, would I effectively wipe
all logs completely? - If I go into the
logrotate.statusfile and
manually remove one particular log, what will happen to that
particular log when logrotate runs next?
logrotate log-rotation
asked Apr 25 at 21:38
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I have a server collecting syslog messages from the network. Logrotate is currently setup and working, and the config looks like such:
/logs/*/log
daily
rotate 60
Instead of rotating daily, I'd like weekly. Obviously, I'm keeping 60 days' logs, so I would likely be changing the rotate 60 to rotate 8, which would keep 8 weeks' logs.
My questions are these:
- If I change from daily to weekly and keep 8 logs, when logrotate
runs will it delete the 52 oldest daily logs, or is it smart enough
to notice the date stamps on the files, and realize that 8 weeks’
time is 2 months ago? - If I run logrotate manually with the
-fflag
to force rotation, and I did this 8 times, would I effectively wipe
all logs completely? - If I go into the
logrotate.statusfile and
manually remove one particular log, what will happen to that
particular log when logrotate runs next?
logrotate log-rotation
asked Apr 25 at 21:38
user3629081user3629081
1042
add a comment |
I have a server collecting syslog messages from the network. Logrotate is currently setup and working, and the config looks like such:
/logs/*/log
daily
rotate 60
Instead of rotating daily, I'd like weekly. Obviously, I'm keeping 60 days' logs, so I would likely be changing the rotate 60 to rotate 8, which would keep 8 weeks' logs.
My questions are these:
- If I change from daily to weekly and keep 8 logs, when logrotate
runs will it delete the 52 oldest daily logs, or is it smart enough
to notice the date stamps on the files, and realize that 8 weeks’
time is 2 months ago? - If I run logrotate manually with the
-fflag
to force rotation, and I did this 8 times, would I effectively wipe
all logs completely? - If I go into the
logrotate.statusfile and
manually remove one particular log, what will happen to that
particular log when logrotate runs next?
logrotate log-rotation
asked Apr 25 at 21:38
user3629081user3629081
1042
I have a server collecting syslog messages from the network. Logrotate is currently setup and working, and the config looks like such:
/logs/*/log
daily
rotate 60
Instead of rotating daily, I'd like weekly. Obviously, I'm keeping 60 days' logs, so I would likely be changing the rotate 60 to rotate 8, which would keep 8 weeks' logs.
My questions are these:
- If I change from daily to weekly and keep 8 logs, when logrotate
runs will it delete the 52 oldest daily logs, or is it smart enough
to notice the date stamps on the files, and realize that 8 weeks’
time is 2 months ago? - If I run logrotate manually with the
-fflag
to force rotation, and I did this 8 times, would I effectively wipe
all logs completely? - If I go into the
logrotate.statusfile and
manually remove one particular log, what will happen to that
particular log when logrotate runs next?
logrotate log-rotation
logrotate log-rotation
asked Apr 25 at 21:38
user3629081user3629081
1042
asked Apr 25 at 21:38
user3629081user3629081
1042
edited Apr 26 at 0:07
user3629081
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1042
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- If you change the number of logs, then at the next run logrotate will ensure that at most that many logs are kept. The number is not necessarily related to number of days (you could run logrotate hourly if you configure it correctly).
- Yes, unless you have the
notifemptysetting (which I do recommend). - Same as if you re-added that log to the configuration after having removed it. It will rotate the log as it doesn't know when that might have been done previously, and it will preserve the required number of logs as per point 1.
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- If you change the number of logs, then at the next run logrotate will ensure that at most that many logs are kept. The number is not necessarily related to number of days (you could run logrotate hourly if you configure it correctly).
- Yes, unless you have the
notifemptysetting (which I do recommend). - Same as if you re-added that log to the configuration after having removed it. It will rotate the log as it doesn't know when that might have been done previously, and it will preserve the required number of logs as per point 1.
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- If you change the number of logs, then at the next run logrotate will ensure that at most that many logs are kept. The number is not necessarily related to number of days (you could run logrotate hourly if you configure it correctly).
- Yes, unless you have the
notifemptysetting (which I do recommend). - Same as if you re-added that log to the configuration after having removed it. It will rotate the log as it doesn't know when that might have been done previously, and it will preserve the required number of logs as per point 1.
answered Apr 26 at 11:09
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- If you change the number of logs, then at the next run logrotate will ensure that at most that many logs are kept. The number is not necessarily related to number of days (you could run logrotate hourly if you configure it correctly).
- Yes, unless you have the
notifemptysetting (which I do recommend). - Same as if you re-added that log to the configuration after having removed it. It will rotate the log as it doesn't know when that might have been done previously, and it will preserve the required number of logs as per point 1.
answered Apr 26 at 11:09
wurtelwurtel
3,038512
- If you change the number of logs, then at the next run logrotate will ensure that at most that many logs are kept. The number is not necessarily related to number of days (you could run logrotate hourly if you configure it correctly).
- Yes, unless you have the
notifemptysetting (which I do recommend). - Same as if you re-added that log to the configuration after having removed it. It will rotate the log as it doesn't know when that might have been done previously, and it will preserve the required number of logs as per point 1.
answered Apr 26 at 11:09
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