AW: Logrotate weekly prerotate everyday?

[Andreas Rabus <andreas.rabus@entity38.de>]

Hi,
take a look at /etc/cron.daily/apache.
There you will find a include for a file /etc/apache/cron.conf
and a few shell commands dealing with the settings within it.

And somehow you can change the behavior to the one you wanted.

So you have to look at two places for the task you want.

Hope that helps...

	ar


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Von: Ward Willats [mailto:ward@wardco.com]
Gesendet: Samstag, 3. August 2002 18:14
An: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Betreff: Logrotate weekly prerotate everyday?


Hello Folks:

I call a local script from...

    /etc/logrotate.d/apache

...in Debian 3.0 to run Analog reports. It is supposed to run once a 
week, but it runs every day:

   /var/log/apache/*.log {
           weekly
           missingok
           rotate 52
           compress
           delaycompress
           notifempty
           create 640 root adm
           sharedscripts
           postrotate
                   /etc/init.d/apache reload > /dev/null
           endscript
           # -- added by ward 28Jul02
           prerotate
                   /etc/run_weekly_analog_reports.sh
           endscript
           # -- end ward
   }

My tiny mind thinks a "prerotate" block should only be executed 
"weekly" once it has been decided to perform a rotation. Not every 
time cron/logrotate peeks into this "apache" file. What as I missing?

(I have fixed the problem by checking the day of the week in my local 
reporting script, but I'd still like to understand my disconnect with 
Perfect Understanding of the One True Way(tm).)

Thanks,

-- Ward


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