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List:       syslog-ng
Subject:    Re: [syslog-ng] Logrotate - recursive directories
From:       Ken Garland <ken.garland () rotech ! com>
Date:       2005-06-13 20:15:53
Message-ID: 42ADE979.9030101 () rotech ! com
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heh, i just emailed the group with another solution i came up with. i
did not really want to go outside the logrotate.d/syslog-ng config and
add more scripts to the server.

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:38:08 EDT, Ken Garland said:
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>>I have syslog-ng setup to add hostname dynamically. When a new server is
>>pointed to the central log server it creates a
>>/var/log/syslogs/$hostname dir and all logs from that host are put in
>>there. in /etc/log/rotate.g/syslog-ng I have tried putting in
>>/var/log/syslogs/* and this will not work.
>>
>>Is there a way for logrotate to search directories recursively?
>>    
>>
>
>Think outside the box. ;)
>
>/var/log/syslogs/$hostname/$day will automagically start a new log each day.
>
>Then 'find /var/log/syslogs -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;' for the cleanup. ;)
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