On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:59 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > ld (compressed) logfiles to a directory on a > different device (from SD card to hard disk in this case). > Unfortunately > the "olddir" config option only works if both directories are on the > same device (probably for easier handling of the first rotate step).
That's probably to make sure that moving the file is immediate/atomic. > Lastaction would be an option, but then I'd need to duplicate the > entire rotation / removal logic (configured per logfile). This might still be an option, if you set "dateext" in logrotate (the old files are then named mylogfile.YYYYMMDD*) Then periodically run something like: cd /path/to/logs ; ls -1 mylog* | sort -r | sed '1,5d' | xargs echo rm (This assume you want to preserve the 5 last log files) Once you have tested it, you can replace "echo rm" with "rm" ;) > Maybe someone has a better idea? There are probably better ideas, but this quick hack should work. Regards, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
