Re: let logrotate create an new empty file?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Meike Stone <meike.stone@gmail.com> writes:

>> >From your explanations, I understand that logrotate would create the
>> file if logrotate rotates the file, which requires the file to exist in
>> the first place, so create it manually and let logrotate rotate and
>> create the file in the future.  Does that work?  (This somewhat ignores
>> issues with file permissions that may exist.)
>
> Yes, this works, but I don't want to create this with an extra command,
> because the application (script) delivers the own crontab (/etc/cron.d/ and
> own logrotate (etc/logrotate.d) file.

And your script cannot simply touch the logfile to create it as well?


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