PS: I do (now) recall that one of the descriptions of how to do what I wanted was in an old (online) issue of Dr. Dobbs, and I spent a fair amount of time trying to get that one to do what I wanted, but it refused to cooperate ;-)
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 07:58:16 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > While we're talking about logrotate, I'd like to ask if anyone else has > seen (and solved) the problem I had with logrotate. > > There were times in the past when I wanted to do things like keep a log (or > a backup of one or more files) something like this: 7 daily logs for one > week, then 4 (or 5) weekly logs for one month, then, 12 monthly logs for > one year (and, ideally, in some circumstances, n yearly logs forever). > > I found various descriptions of how (iiuc) I could make logrotate do that > for me, but they never worked correctly for me. (I forget the exact > problem, it may have been that they would not, for example, delete (or > overwrite), for example, the daily logs -- but, as I say, I really don't > remember the problem, just that I couldn't get it to work.) > > If this rings the bell for anyone, and you had a similar problem and found > the solution, I'd appreciate any hints you can offer. (If you think the > solutions on the web "just work", then you probably haven't encountered > the problem I found.) > > Thanks!
